FAO Urges Global Action to Combat Transboundary Animal Diseases
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, has called on countries worldwide to strengthen cooperation and secure sustainable funding to tackle transboundary animal diseases (TADs), warning that they pose a significant threat to global food security and economic stability.
Beyond the Medicine: Kenichiro Yagi's Mission to Change Lives, One Moment at a Time
Emergency vet tech specialist Kenichiro Yagi on why veterinary medicine's biggest problem isn't the medicine and how focusing on individual lives changes everything.
New Research Suggests Mad Cow Disease May Have Been Triggered by More Than Misfolded Proteins
For decades, mad cow disease — bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) — has been blamed almost exclusively on misfolded infectious proteins known as prions. But groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta is challenging that long-standing theory and shedding new light on why the devastating outbreaks in the U.K. unfolded the way they did.
“Better Off Dead?” Inside the Ethical Storm Surrounding Rescued Wild Animals
For Dr. Jacqui Wilmshurst, a wildlife rescuer and scholar who recently spoke at the Annual Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School, the question is both personal and deeply complicated. Her work, detailed in an interview with Psychology Today’s Marc Bekoff, challenges long-held beliefs about animal disability, wildness, and what constitutes a life worth living.
Greece’s Sheep and Goat Crisis Sparks Fears of a Global Feta Shortage
According to BBC News, hundreds of thousands of sheep and goats have already been culled across multiple regions, raising alarm bells about the future of Greek dairy farming, and the world’s supply of authentic feta cheese.
First Peer-Reviewed Paper Demonstrating A CRISPR-Based Therapeutic Is Effective Against African Swine Fever
Seek Labs, a biotechnology company boldly seeking a healthier world through AI-powered discovery, programmable therapeutics, and point-of-care diagnostics, today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed paper in Viruses (MDPI), revealing the first successful use of a CRISPR-based therapeutic to treat African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) in pigs. The findings demonstrate the company’s proprietary CRISPR-based therapeutic successfully reduced viremia, enabling recovery and protective immunity in animals infected with a lethal dose of the disease.