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As a global leading supplier of raw materials, antibodies, and reagents for bio-technology industry, Creative Diagnostics recently launches a range of natural and recombinant staphylococcal enterotoxin antigens that are well validated in double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The newly introduced antigens consist of five of the most common staphylococcus aureus ...
The OPTI SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Test has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization and CE-IVD for sample handling using the OPTI Rapid Lysis Buffer. The OPTI Rapid Lysis Buffer protocol eliminates the need for magnetic bead or spin column extraction and prepares the samples for PCR testing using a simple heating protocol. The OPTI Rapid Lysis Buffer has shown a diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of ...
MV Biotherapeutics SA (from now on “MV Bio”), a Swiss microbiome biotherapeutics company and Malcisbo AG (from now on “Malcisbo”), a Swiss company developing carbohydrate-based vaccines are proud to announce a collaboration after winning an Innosuisse grant. Malcisbo and MV Bio have previously signed a contract, which gives Malcisbo the exclusive right to use MV Bio ...
As the world still holds its breath for the widespread rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, the experts studying infectious diseases are already shifting their focus to the prevention of the next pandemic. While this may seem pessimistic to those eager to celebrate the expected suppression of COVID-19 and a hopeful return to pre-pandemic life, researchers in the realms of biology and epidemiology have ...
Several studies affirm that farms and livestock operations, especially those dedicated to the breeding of white mink, can be major sources of infection by COVID 19. This has generated great concern to health authorities and those responsible for livestock farms around the country. Through Active technology we can help combat this health emergency and help control the various sources of ...
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, partnered with Chairman Pat Roberts to successfully lead bipartisan negotiations to increase food assistance for families and provide help to farmers and food suppliers in the final COVID-19 package. The final bill includes a 15% increase in SNAP benefits and provides additional ...
To round off World Antibiotic Awareness Week in November, the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics have produced a report calling for Government to protect public health and take a stronger stance against using antibiotics too much on farms. The US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which are all in trade negotiations with the UK, allow farmers to give antibiotics to livestock to make them grow ...
OPTI Medical Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), today announced that it has received the CE mark certification in the European Union for its OPTI SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR laboratory test kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This announcement follows earlier validation of the test by the Institut Pasteur of France as well as Emergency ...
OPTI Medical Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDXX), today announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the OPTI SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR laboratory test kit for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. This announcement follows earlier validation of the test by the Institut ...
Senator Brian Kavanagh and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal joined NYPIRG, Consumer Reports, Center for Food Safety, and over 70 national and state environmental, health, and consumer organizations today to call on the State Legislature and the Governor to take action in the state budget against the immediate and growing threat to the public's health posed by antibiotic-resistant "superbugs." ...
Yesterday (July 22, 2019), the Ik4-Tekniker center in Eibar hosted the ceremony for the delivery of the XXIX Toribio Echevarria Awards, which on this occasion have awarded their main awards to two projects oriented towards environmental sustainability. The finalists in the “Ideas / Projects” category are Miramoon Pharma, Multiverse Computing, Onena Medicines and Surphase. In the ...
The Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Livestock Group is leading regulatory change in partnership with the Victorian Government to mandate pain relief for mulesing sheep to achieve the highest animal welfare outcomes. “Mulesing remains the most effective method for controlling breech flystrike, a terribly painful and fatal affliction for sheep. To deliver the best possible animal welfare ...
Cargill is eliminating 20 percent of shared-class antibiotics, those deemed important for human medicine and farm animals, from its four feed yards in Texas, Kansas and Colorado, and four additional feed yards operated by Friona Industries, which is a strategic business partner that supplies the company with cattle. The total number of cattle involved annually is approximately 1.2 million. This ...
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The Jenner Institute at Oxford University, together with partners Imaxio and GSK, has started a phase I clinical trial of a novel vaccine candidate aimed at blocking transmission of malaria. Around half the world’s population is at risk of malaria and the disease led to an estimated 584,000 deaths in 2013. MosquirixTM, a malaria vaccine candidate developed by GSK, has just received a ...
Genome analysis of 234 bulls has put researchers, including several from Wageningen Livestock Research, on the trail of DNA variants which influence particular characteristics in breeding bulls. For example, two variants have proven responsible for disruptions to the development of embryos and for curly hair, which is disadvantageous because more ticks and parasites occur in curly hair than in ...
The British Veterinary Association are warning of the considerable risk of disease from floodwater to pets and livestock in the countryside. Pet owners are being advised to keep pets away from the receding floodwater as many areas will have been contaminated with chemicals and sewage. Flooding has also affected many homes and large areas of land throughout the UK. Although the water is ...
In 2010, a Navajo cattle rancher named Larry Gordy discovered an abandoned uranium mine in the middle of his grazing land in Cameron, AZ, according to the New York Times. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) visited the site and found dangerously high levels of uranium, but the agency has yet to begin the clean-up. The EPA found that the radioactivity there measured one million counts ...
Livestock intensification in developing countries, especially in Africa and Asia, may increase the incidence of epidemics that kill both humans and animals, the Vision 2020: Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health conference, was told today. Livestock numbers are rising sharply due to both population growth — small-scale farmers depend on livestock for their livelihoods ...
The risk of animals passing diseases to humans could increase in some cases, but decrease in others, as people encroach on and disrupt wildlife migration paths, according to a review in Science. Climate change is also affecting migration patterns, and the review says there is an urgent need for research on how changes in habitat and climate will affect disease in migratory animals, to predict ...