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Researchers grow chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells inside pigs. The researchers are from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, University of Cambridge, and Jilin University. A severe organ shortage plagues the progress of organ transplantation. One solution may be to generate human organs in other large mammals, however, that […]

The Department of Animal, Aquaculture and Range Sciences is pleased to inform the scientific community and to Congratulate Dr. Muumin Iddi Hamad a member of academic staff, for a successfully defending his PhD on the 06th of November 2023 at Sokoine University of Agriculture. The tittle of his PhD thesis is “Analysis of Diurnal and […]

Scientists discovered a protein that seals plant roots to regulate the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil. They add that the finding could help in developing climate proof crops that require less water and chemical fertilizers. The University of Nottingham team identified new components of the lignin barrier in plant roots and the […]

Mastomys natalensis, also known as the Natal multimammate mouse, is a rodent species found in many parts of Africa. It is considered the primary reservoir host for the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague. The sylvatic (wildlife) plague cycle primarily involves rodents and their fleas in natural settings. In the context of plague, these […]

by Ryan O’Hare Scientists have successfully used gene editing techniques to limit the spread of bird flu in chickens. In a UK first, researchers have been able to restrict, but not completely block, the avian influenza virus from infecting the birds by precisely altering a small section of their DNA. The modified birds showed no signs […]