Agriculture

Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows

Health
Sarah Carter

“The flu can be spread by faecal-oral routes, and so it’s not an impossible scenario that chickens who are infected with H5N1 ...

Breakthrough Could Reduce Cultivated Meat Production Costs by up to 90%

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

A breakthrough in cellular agriculture, enabling bovine cells to produce their own growth factors, promises significant cost reductions in cultivated meat production. ...

Distinguishing between driver and passenger mechanisms of aging

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Woodcox, A. Aristotle’s theory of aging. In Cahiers des Études Anciennes 65–78 (2018). de Magalhães, J. P. In An Introduction to Gerontology ...

Primate-specific ZNF808 is essential for pancreatic development in humans

Science
Dr. Thomas Hughes

Subjects The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all subjects or their parents/guardian gave informed written consent ...