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NewsScientists closing in on long-lasting swine flu vaccine
A successful long-term experiment with live hogs indicates scientists may be another step closer to achieving a safe, long-lasting and potentially universal vaccine against swine flu.
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Solutions to the global burden of foodborne illness
Each year 7 June marks World Food Safety Day, encouraging global food safety awareness through open discussion to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks throughout the population.
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Novel bacterial strain in feed boosts broiler chicken growth and changes gut microbiome
A novel bacterial strain added as a supplement to broiler chicken feed not only boosts their growth rate, but significantly alters their caecal microbiome, enhancing the capacity for microbial amino acid and vitamin biosynthesis, a new study shows.
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Pectin carriers unleash army of predatory bacteria
Researchers in Israel have come up with a way to turn the weapons of potato soft-rot pathogens against themselves, unleashing an army of predatory bacteria that can destroy the pathogens.
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Curious calves drive shedding of pathogen in herds
Inquisitive dairy calves could be driving the spread of a zoonotic pathogen in their herds, a new study has revealed.
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Scientists ID microbes that associate with oilcane
Researchers have identified the types of microbes that associate with engineered oilcane, opening the way to new opportunities to leverage plant-microbial interactions in these feedstocks, which could increase oil yields for sustainable bioenergy production.
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Meet Ginger: the gene-edited calf resistant to BVDV
Scientists introduce Ginger, the first gene-edited calf with reduced susceptibility to a major viral pathogen.
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Benchtop model lays bare secrets of gut microbiome
A benchtop model of the human gut (MiGut) has been developed to allow the interaction of drugs, nutrition, prebiotics, and live biotherapeutics with the gut microbiome to be studied in greater depth than ever before.
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Rampant fungus threatens banana trade in Africa
Researchers have warned that Fusarium wilt TR4 appears to be spreading uncontrollably in Mozambique and immediate action is needed.
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Fungal diseases threaten global food security
Scientists have warned of the “devastating” impact that fungal disease in crops will have on global food supply unless agencies across the world come together to find new ways to combat infection.
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AI-powered system diagnoses tomato leaf diseases
Researchers have developed an innovative deep learning architecture to accurately distinguish between different tomato leaf diseases.
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Machine learning helps to ID microbe preferences
Researchers have figured out a way to predict bacteria’s environmental pH preferences from a quick look at their genomes, using machine learning.
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Antimicrobial use in agriculture can breed bacteria resistant to first-line human defences
A new study has shown that overuse of antimicrobials in livestock production can drive the evolution of bacteria more resistant to the first line of the human immune response.
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Phylogenetic analysis reveals the lessons of previous bird flu outbreaks
Researchers have confirmed that the H7N9 virus was likely circulating in poultry for several months before being discovered in both poultry markets and humans and that more poultry markets may have been affected than previously believed.
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Rapid food-contamination test for Salmonella may improve safety, reduce waste and lower costs
Researchers have developed a rapid and inexpensive test for Salmonella contamination in chicken and other food – one that’s easier to use than a home COVID test.
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Red clover losses in forage mixtures are linked to soil pathogens - and how far south they are
Losses in red clover plant numbers within forage mixtures in the years after they are sown are not only connected to fungal pathogens in the soil, but also how far south they are grown, with implications for how climate change could affect livestock farms, a new study has found.
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Bumblebee superfood battles gut pathogen - and boosts queen bee production
Two new papers show that the spiny pollen from plants in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) both reduces infection of a common bee parasite by 81–94% and markedly increases the production of queen bumble bees.
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‘Hangry’ bacteria pump out toxins, unlike their identical but well-fed colleagues
New study shows that genetically identical cells within a bacterial community have different functions, with some members behaving more docile and others producing the very toxins that make us ill.
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Fertilizer additive makes slurry more climate-friendly
Scientists have found that combining farm slurry with calcium cyanamide brings the production of greenhouse gas mathane to an almost complete halt.
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Lab boost delivered by salt-tolerant PGPB strains offers hope for halophyte cultivation
Several plant growth-promoting bacteria bacterial strains are able to boost growth in halophyte plants under laboratory conditions, offering hope for developing their cultivation in marginal land.
