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12 June 2001
Senior UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) officials have admitted to failing to follow advice on how to
safely dispose of animals culled during the foot and mouth outbreak. They also failed to implement programmes for monitoring
possible health effects to humans until months after the first animals were either burned or buried.
12 June 2001
In The Netherlands, the recent foot and mouth epidemic has ignited a political discussion on the future of intensive farming
and animal production.
12 June 2001
The outcome of a lawsuit filed against the US government could have far reaching consequences on the worldwide search for
medical therapies based on embryonic stem cells. Stem cell researchers in the UK are particularly concerned.
12 June 2001
A team of researchers from South Korea claim that abnormalities found in the DNA of cloned embryos could explain why so many
cloned embryos die.
12 June 2001
Cowboys and matadors who want to know if a bull will give them a run for their money should take a glance at its hairstyle.
Cattle's coiffure, it seems, reveals how likely an animal is to overreact to unfamiliar situations.
12 June 2001
Although NASA does not plan to bring any samples back to Earth before 2014, it must start planning a quarantine facility for
Martian samples.
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12 June 2001
Researchers around the world are competing to find ways to help make real sense of the genome. Recently two promising methods
have been reported; one puts live cells into microarrays while the other makes it possible to see miniscule amounts of a protein
inside the cells.
12 June 2001
When a baby girl is born she has already discarded far more eggs than she could ever use. American researchers have been looking
into this phenomenon in mice and claim the reasons for this attrition are many and varied.
12 June 2001
It is nearly 50 years ago that the cells’ ion channel was first discovered, but only recently have researchers in New York
managed to describe the inner workings of the molecule that enables the channels to automatically snap shut in milliseconds.
12 June 2001
One of the United Kingdom's leading science bodies, The Royal Society, has published a new report in which its members support
the genetic modification of animals, provided that suffering to animals involved in the experiments is minimalised and that
adequate safeguards are present to prevent animals escaping into the wild.
12 June 2001
Presentations given by experts on the carrier phenomenon and its role in the spreading of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV).
12 June 2001
International veterinary immunology symposia have been organized every three years since 1986, providing an opportunity to
share latest results and future prospects; this meeting intends to maintain the excellent scientific standards experienced
in previous years.
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