News tagged with pig intestines

Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides

Recent work from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna confirms that sulfonamides can be used to control coccidiosis in piglets, although not without considerable effort and expense. In contrast, the drug toltrazuril ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swine researchers seek answers to fiber's low digestibility

As interest grows in feeding distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to growing pigs, many questions are being asked about the digestibility of this alternative feed option.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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US issues guidelines to avoid heparin contamination

Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued draft guidelines for safe production.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research provides new insights into antibiotics and pig feeds

Antibiotics in pig feed increased the number of antibiotic resistant genes in gastrointestinal microbes in pigs, according to a study conducted by Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Take two robots and call me in the morning

In the 1966 film "Fantastic Voyage," medical personnel board a submarine that shrinks to microscopic size and enters the bloodstream of a wounded diplomat to save his life.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Artificial intestine to treat youths' bowel disorder

(Medical Xpress) -- A tiny 3-D collagen "scaffold" developed in a Cornell lab could prove a lifesaver for those who have lost parts of their intestine.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pig-induced pluripotent stem cells may be safer than previously thought

Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Discovery represents 'new paradigm' in the way drugs can be manufactured

Robert Linhardt is working to forever change the way some of the most widely used drugs in the world are manufactured. Today, in the journal Science, he and his partner in the research, Jian Liu, have announ ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New drug targets revealed from giant parasitic worm genome sequence

Scientists have identified the genetic blueprint of the giant intestinal roundworm, Ascaris suum, revealing potential targets to control the devastating parasitic disease, ascariasis which affects more than one billion people ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UK taxi driver becomes first mummy for 3,000 years

A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3,000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 11

Wind of change: Aussie 'farting camels' cull under attack

The world's association of camel scientists fought back angrily on Monday over Australian plans to kill wild dromedaries on the grounds that their flatulence adds to global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 35

Nitrates in meat blamed in Chinese man's death

(AP) -- A Chinese butcher was sentenced to life in prison on Saturday for adding industrial grade nitrates to meat that was blamed in a man's poisoning death,

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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