How society regards the use of genetic modification and genome editing can have a significant influence on how these technologies are regulated by authorities and on the pace of technological advancement. In a review published ...
Biotechnology
Dec 20, 2017
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Last year, biologist Susanne Åkesson at Lund University in Sweden, together with researchers in Hungary, received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded to them for their research showing that dark-coated horses ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2017
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Scientists say they've unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived off Southern California's Channel Islands some 25 million years ago.
Archaeology
Nov 28, 2017
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A case of "mad cow disease" has been discovered in northwestern Spain, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
Ecology
Nov 27, 2017
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Corrals are used on livestock farms around the world to round up the animals when they need to be weighed or vaccinated. New research now shows that removing splashes of colors, shadows or water puddles from corrals, keeping ...
Other
Nov 15, 2017
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Milk yields from cows increased by 9% when they wore a new product from UCD spin-out Equilume.
Other
Oct 2, 2017
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One of the most contagious of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is chronic wasting disease (CWD) which affects deer and represents a risk to human health and the health of farm animals. There are many problems ...
Ecology
Sep 26, 2017
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A university student has gone from stool to stools after transforming cow manure into a range of designer household furniture.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 5, 2017
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Domestic animals are rarely associated with Antarctica. However, before non-native species (bar humans) were excluded from the continent in the 1990s, many travelled to the far south. These animals included not only the obvious ...
Other
Aug 14, 2017
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Environmental influences affecting cows during pregnancy have been shown to induce life-long physical and metabolic changes in the offspring. To learn more about the effects of heat stress on calves conceived during the summer, ...
Other
Jul 25, 2017
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