The Journal

Enhanced biosecurity training helps beef cattle producers secure operations

As Texas livestock producers keep a watchful eye on emerging pests and other challenges like New World screwworm, farm biosecurity is at the forefront. Monte Rouquette, Ph.D., professor of forage ...
National Hog Farmer

FAO, USDA unite to fight African swine fever in the Dominican Republic

A second phase of the program will strengthen national biosecurity through further certification of farms, slaughterhouses and animal transport systems.
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop

1. What high-containment biological research facilities exist in the United States? Since 2001, the number of facilities that can conduct high-containment biological research (United States Centers ...
University of Wyoming

CITI TRAINING FOR RESEARCH WITH ANIMALS

1. Enter www.citiprogram.org into your web browser. 2. Select “Register Here” next to “New Users.” 3. Select University of Wyoming from the drop down list under “Participating Institutions.” 4. Select ...
The Nation Newspaper

Emerging diseases: Don seeks investments on animal welfare, biosecurity

A consultant to the World Bank, Prof Abel Ogunwale has called for increased investments to improve food safety, animal welfare and biosecurity at abattoirs. Ogunwale of the Agricultural Economics & ...
The Business Journals

Sunoco Logistics partners to create biosecurity training module

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The partnership stems from the growth of pipeline ...
Post-Bulletin

biosecurity plan

EMMETSBURG, Iowa — "....Iowa has been added to the list of states in which the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease has appeared. The Department of Agriculture has been advised that the disease has broken ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Use all the tools of the trade: Building a foundation for the next era of biosecurity

This capability offers enormous promise for public health, but it also illustrates how the frontiers of biology are shifting faster than traditional governance structures. Emerging technologies like ...
CounterPunch

The Biosecurity Myth That is Destroying Small Farming

Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the virus affected every ...
Singularity Hub

AI Can Now Design Proteins and DNA. Scientists Warn We Need Biosecurity Rules Before It’s Too Late.

Generative AI is biology’s new playground. The technology powering popular chatbots can also dream up new, entirely novel versions of life’s most basic molecules, from DNA to proteins. Once the domain ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Summary of a Workshop

In Pakistan, many institutes work using BSL-1 and BSL-2 level facilities. The National Institute of Health, Islamabad has been working at BSL-2+ and is constructing BSL-3 facilities. BSL-3 facilities ...