Unlike the conventional method of testing, which requires different samples for different tests, the portable Lab-on-Chip application is able to detect multiple infectious disease agents affecting poultry using only one sample. (Image source: PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay)
A poultry biochip has been launched that can detect nine major diseases using a single sample applied to the portable, disposable chip
(From left) Harm Langen, Somnuk Hophaisarn, Bas Kanters, Nadine Lauvoravitaya, Veerasak Wuthiwaropas and Bart Aangenendt. (Image source: Centaco)
Thailand’s agribusiness enterprise Centaco Group has announced plans to fully expand its integrated operation in the country with a new hatchery from Pas Reform
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation, contributing more than 15 per cent of global tuna production. (Image source: Katkat/Pixabay)
Indonesia has launched a programme to develop harvest strategies for its tropical tuna fisheries in archipelagic waters to ensure that the resources are managed sustainably and used optimally
Gary Partridge has given many presentations on feed enzyme technology and betaine application in farm animal nutrition. (Image source: DuPont)
DuPont Industrial Biosciences subsidiary Danisco will discuss how feed enzyme technologies can maximise profits for swine producers at the International Poultry & Pig Show (IPPS) at Nagoya City in Japan on 10-12 June 2015
Shrimp are sought-after for materials such as chitin and chitosan that are found in their shells. (Image source: RafaelOrtegaDaz/WikimediaCommons)
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Engineering and Materials Science have extracted a product from shrimp cells, which was applied on zinc-oxide nano rods to make solar cells
