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Friday, January 10, 2025
Phytobiotics: The Power of Biomarkers in Swine Production
In the fast-evolving world of swine production, ensuring the health and performance of livestock is paramount. As producers strive to optimize growth rates, feed conversion ratios (FCR), and overall herd health, the integration of innovativ ...
Friday, June 9, 2023
Roslin: Epigenetic markers aid understanding of cattle immunity
Researchers have revealed important variations in chemical markers found attached to DNA that likely influence gene activity in the immune systems of cattle, the Roslin Institute said.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Researchers discover biomarkers for detecting liver abscesses in live cattle
Two researchers from Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine has discovered that biochemicals specific to liver abscesses could be used as biomarkers in live cattle to detect liver abscesses, Beef Magazine reported.
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Roslin: Cell marker methods aid study of poultry immunity
Novel approaches to identifying key molecules associated with immunity have enabled researchers to identify a chicken immune cell with a critical role in mediating fighting infection, the Roslin Institute announced.
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Genomics marker tool to help identify hybrid fish in Tanzania
An inexpensive genomics marker tool can accurately identify hybrid fish that threaten the survival of natural tilapia populations in aquaculture, helping empower both aquaculture producers and conservation efforts in Tanzania.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Mycotoxins and biomarkers of exposure win the battle against mycotoxins
The difficulty in the mycotoxins detection in raw materials and feed, due to their heterogeneous distribution and their commonly low specific clinical manifestation, makes that many unknown problems are attributed to them. To end these "act ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Host intestinal biomarker identification in a gut leakage model in broilers
Intestinal health problems are a major issue in the poultry industry. Quantifiable easy-to-measure biomarkers for intestinal health would be of great value to monitor subclinical intestinal entities that cause performance problems and to ev ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Biomarkers for monitoring intestinal health in poultry: Present status and future perspectives
Intestinal health is determined by host (immunity, mucosal barrier), nutritional, microbial and environmental factors. Deficiencies in intestinal health are associated with shifts in the composition of the intestinal microbiome (dysbiosis), ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Species-specific marker discovery in tilapia
Tilapias (family Cichlidae) are of importance in aquaculture and fisheries. Hybridisation and introgression are common within tilapia genera but are difficult to analyse due to limited numbers of species-specific genetic markers.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Innovad to provide new service for biomarker-based mycotoxin exposure
Innovad has concluded a four-year PhD research project with the University of Ghent (Belgium) on the use of biomarkers for mycotoxin exposure in livestock.
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Causes, consequences and biomarkers of stress in swine: an update
n recent decades there has been a growing concern about animal stress on intensive pig farms due to the undesirable consequences that stress produces in the normal physiology of pigs and its effects on their welfare and general productive p ...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
China Whey Weekly: Marker remains weak on slack demand (week ended Sep 25, 2017)
Dwindling sow inventories, which shrank almost 1% in August according to official statistics, continued to limit the population of piglet in China. With demand sluggish, whey traders held price flat while import costs slid substantially.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Biotransformation of deoxynivalenol to non-toxic metabolite de-epoxy deoxynivalenol: confirmation by biomarker study in pig serum
Deoxynivalenol (DON) is one of the most common mycotoxins in Asia. According to the 2014 BIOMIN Mycotoxin Survey, 65% of 1,762 tested samples from Asia were contaminated by DON, with an average of positive level of 512 ppb. Contaminated fee ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Biomarkers shed new light on mycotoxin issues
Hundreds of different mycotoxins were detected during the last few decades. Each of them differs in toxicity, symptoms, incidence in feedstuffs, species impact, etc. By considering 'biomarkers', the numbers are further multiplied fr ...
Friday, May 10, 2013
A consensus map of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) based on diversity array technology markers: applications in genetic dissection of qualitative and quantitative traits
Dense consensus genetic maps based on high-throughput genotyping platforms are valuable for making genetic gains in Brassica napus through quantitative trait locus identification, efficient predictive molecular breeding, and map-based gene ...

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