What are you looking for?
Category: Research & Diagnostics ×
Myxomatosis: When Viruses Become More Deadly Over Time
The course of myxomatosis in rabbits has often been cited as an example to demonstrate that a virus becomes less virulent when it becomes endemic within a population. This is kn...
Influenza A: Transmission of the H1N1 influenza virus between pigs and farmers has been confirmed
A study by the University of Minnesota conducted a risk assessment of interspecies transmission of the influenza A virus from pigs to farmworkers. The findings regarding the spr...
Will insects really be the food of the future?
Tom Bry-Chevalier , University of Lorraine When discussing the food of the future, one topic regularly pops up in the media: the consumption of insects. “Food of the Future: Ins...
Do Digital Technology and Agroecology Go Hand in Hand? The Case of Livestock Farming
Stéphane Ingrand , INRAE Contrary to popular belief, farmers in France own, on average, more digital devices than the rest of the population . Specifically, 67% of them own a de...
Extreme heat waves threaten bee fertility and cause sudden bee deaths
Alison McAfee , University of British Columbia In June 2021, temperatures exceeded 42 °C for several days in Western Canada. The town of Lytton, British Columbia, even reached 4...
Octopuses are intelligent: it would be unethical to farm them
An aquaculture project to farm octopuses in the Canary Islands would produce 3,000 metric tons of octopuses per year , which means that nearly 275,000 individuals would be kille...