Tag: Agriculture
World’s First Bison Genome Biobank’s Development Boosted by $5.1 Million Funding from Genome Canada
The BIG project will apply new genomics solutions to better protect and conserve the wood bison population in Canada. It’s directly connected with the massive $17-million-dollar research initiative called “Integrated omics for sustainable animal agriculture and environmental stewardship” (IntegrOmes)...
ATCC Awarded Two Projects from the USDA Including the Creation of ARS Resources Collection...
ATCC, the world’s premier biological materials management and standards organization, today announced that it has been awarded two projects, with a combined value of $385,000, by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support its Agricultural Research Service (ARS) agency over...
New ELISA Diagnostic Shows PHEV Is Endemic In U.S. Swine Herds
Porcine hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus (PHEV) is a swine coronavirus first isolated in 1962 associated with vomiting & wasting disease (VWD) as well as encephalomyelitis, with a high mortality rate in newborn pigs. Most current research is focused on the...
New England Biolabs® Launches Sequence-Based Genotyping For Agricultural Biotech Applications
New England Biolabs (NEB®) has launched the NEBNext Direct
Genotyping Solution, representing the first capture-based approach for
high-throughput genotyping for a wide variety of applications in Agricultural
Biotechnology (AgBio). The approach may also be attractive for uses in human
and animal genotyping, including...
