New map: Benefits of controlling trypanosomosis in the Horn of Africa
Benefits of Controlling Trypanosomosis in the Horn of Africa, by Timothy Robinson, Giuliano Cecchi, William Wint, Raffaele Mattioli and Alexandra Shaw. The International Food Policy Research Institute...
View ArticleSam Black on Noel Murphy, Irish geneticist gentleman scholar
The Murphy clan: Daniel, Neala, Anne, Noel, Abbie (holding ‘Roxy’) and Aisling. The following appreciation is written by Sam Black. Noel Murphy died on Friday 16 January 2015, leaving the world devoid...
View ArticleUK chief scientific adviser visits Kenya: Part 1—Legacy of British-ILRI...
Sir Mark Walport, the UK chief scientific adviser, listens to ILRI researchers make presentations on international projects to improve livestock and human health in developing countries; Sir Mark...
View Article‘Soft’ science at ILRAD/ILRI: A lively look back at three decades of...
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) marked its 40-year anniversary last year, 2014. One of the publications commissioned to celebrate that milestone is this new research report,...
View Article‘One Health for the Real World’ (or, ‘real livestock for real global wellbeing’)
The four members of the organizing committee of the One Health for the Real World Symposium and key players in the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium: (left to right), James Wood,...
View ArticleCloned bull could contribute to development of disease-resistant African cattle
Tumaini, ILRI’s cloned bull, and his offspring (photo credit: ILRI). A new note in a scientific journal gives an update on long-term research to develop African cattle resistant to the African animal...
View ArticleMedicine Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty is patron of the International...
Peter Doherty, Australian Nobel Laureate, at the adoption of the FAO Declaration on Global Freedom from Rinderpest (photo credit: ©FAO/Alessandra Benedetti). When Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of...
View ArticleDFID/UKAid provides £4 million for genetics and health research to aid...
More oxen for ploughing means less labour for farmers (photo: ILRI/Stevie Mann). In Ethiopia’s Ghibe Valley, ILRI-led tsetse fly control methods allowed cattle to flourish in an area previously almost...
View ArticleImproving animal health in southern Africa—Why it matters and what to do
Cattle being herded towards green pasture on the flood plain in western Zambia (photo credit: WorldFish/Felix Clay/Duckrabbit). In a new book chapter (Ch. 15, Technologies for agricultural...
View ArticleExcursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’...
Written by Susan MacMillan and Ekta Patel ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of...
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