People with Crohn's disease (CD) are seven-fold more likely to have in their gut tissues the bacterium that causes a digestive-tract disease in cattle called Johne's disease. The role this bacterium may or may not play in causing CD is a top research priority, according to a new report released by the American Academy of Microbiology.
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Rajasthan state tourism department has this year introduced adventure sports like para sailing, rock climbing, trekking and other such activities. Camel cart and horse safari will also form a part of the event.
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Cattle deaths due to bloat are an economic loss, but the greater cost may come during the early stages of bloat, said a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher at Vernon.
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Landliebe Cattle Feed Programme With Purely Indigenous Crops and Landliebe School Milk to be Launched in September 2007
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Hematech, Inc and Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd, announced today, in a report published in Nature Biotechnology, the production of healthy prion protein-knockout cows. Prion protein is a natural cellular protein that can become misfolded into infectious particles and cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease) and a lethal variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in humans.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) announced today that initial results of a research project involving prion-free cattle are now available online at www.nature.com/nbt/. ARS scientists evaluated cattle that have been genetically modified so they do not produce prions, and determined that there were no observable adverse effects on the animals' health.
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