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and their reckless, profligate use in livestock rearing, has provided ample opportunity for resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria to proliferate through natural selection.
Thin, flexible mechanical energy harvester, with rectifier and microbattery, mounted on the bovine heart. Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona.
Thin, flexible mechanical energy harvester, with rectifier and microbattery, mounted on the bovine heart. Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona.
They then affixed it to beating sheep and cow hearts to see if it would operate as they had hoped
and human activities, such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock. uman activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management,
and more effective route to the creation of vaccines to combat some of the most devastating diseases affecting farm livestock.
MEDISCO is also proving its worth in tests at a dairy factory in Marrakech, Morocco.
Hot weather there has caused often large quantities of fresh milk to go off meaning it cannot be sold to the public.
"Its quick growth time is an advantage that the seaweed has over other food sources, especially livestock,
and form a growth in a milk duct. Because of potential side effects many women with DCIS are reluctant to take oral tamoxifen after being treated with breast-saving surgery
The team tested the wireless charging system in a pig and used it to power a tiny pacemaker in a rabbit.
and turn it into water that is clean enough for livestock to drink. It also extracts nutrients that can be reused as fertilizer.
and human activities, such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock. uman activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management,
Based on text references it might seem that the color associated with sheep is black but people##and NEIL##nevertheless know that sheep typically are white. mages are the best way to learn visual propertiessays Abhinav Gupta assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon University s Robotics Institute. mages
also include a lot of common sense information about the world. People learn this by themselves and with NEIL we hope that computers will do
Modern milk cows produce an average of 6. 5 gallons (24.6 l) of milk per day.
and dairy farmers must either plan their daily routine entirely around this fact or make enough money to hire additional labor.
and a certain degree of mechanization started to creep into dairy farming. By 1939, a otolactormilking parlor was showcased at the Borden pavilion at the New york World Fair,
including robotic cowshed cleaners and forage pushers. It modular, so it can be configured to local farm needs,
there will be more milk and happier cows. The Astronaut 4 system is designed to be as easy as possible for the cow to use.
The brushing also stimulates the production of oxytocin as well as improving milk flow speed. The milk is moved from the arm through the rest of the system by means of compressed air impeller pumps.
Compressed air is preferred the method of powering a milking robot wherever possible to avoid the danger of contamination that a hydraulic system presents.
The Lely MQC Milk Quality control MQC in the arm measures the color, temperature, conductivity, fat, lactose, levels of somatic cells,
and protein levels in the milk for each cow. It also notes animal weight, milking speed and
collecting the milk and maintenance, most of the work is supervising the system by means of a remote dashboard on a computer
Nearly a third of the world s ice-free land is used already to raise livestock or grow fodder for these animals.##
##On which note, Malthusians may ask:####How will anticipated the food shortfall be made up?#####One possible (and grossly revolting) solution was tabled in the Sci-fi classic#Soylent Green.
Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.
Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Livestock biometrics: Collars with GPS, RFID and biometrics can automatically identify and relay vital information about the livestock in real time.
Scientifically viable in 2017; mainstream and financially viable in 2020. Crop sensors: Instead of prescribing field fertilization before application,
The next generation of selective breeding where the end-result is analyzed quantitatively and improvements are suggested algorithmically. Scientifically viable in 2014;
Bryan Charleston, head of the Livestock Viral Diseases Programme at the Pirbright Institute in Woking, UK,
JEFF J MITCHELL/REUTERSA 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth disease led to the slaughter of huge numbers of sheep and cows.
Space surgeons Prototypes have performed several dozen procedures in pigs. The team says the next step is to work in human cadavers
Today, hundreds of companies worldwide are making drones for infrastructure inspection, crop-and livestock-monitoring,
and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,
or simply to advise you that the milk in your fridge has gone off.""The possibilities are endless. l
This protein concentration is similar to one drop of milk dissolved in a hundred tons of water.
#On the frontiers of cyborg science No longer just fantastical fodder for sci-fi buffs, cyborg technology is bringing us tangible progress toward real-life electronic skin, prosthetics and ultraflexible circuits.
"Such animals, including many interesting larger ones like pigs, would be attractive for a variety of transgenic technologies,
Folks who maybe drank some milk right out of the jug one time and spilled it all over themselves
Now Mitalipov and his team have made clones using the same basic technique that created Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996.
and disposed of it as useless fodder a left over byproduct as they attempt to make stem cells they believe they have gotten around a moral dilemma of cloning humans.
The process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans...
Dolly the sheep did come to term as a living breathing sheep YES. The human enbryo via a scientific choice did not come to term by was exploited for other purposes then disposed of.
If you do a Google search for pictures of Dolly the clone sheep you will find many.@
Some people objected to artificial insemination I don't a big difference in these methods of reproduction.
It's how they made Dolly the sheep. It's viable enough. Kill that embryo
There is one good declaration of science in developing the sheep embryo to full term and adulthood.
or send it to animal feed. But if there's some food you can't avoid throwing away,
In testing the capsules in pigs, the researchers found that the rings expanded into their original shape within 15 minutes of ingestion
the doctor can view different parts of the stomachex vivo testing in a pig stomach.
So far, the Tadpole Endoscope has been tested in an artificial stomach as well as in a pig stomach
#New half-fat soft cheese solution Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein solution that enables dairies to produce low-fat soft ripened cheeses that taste as good as the full-fat versions.
Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a whey protein solution that enables dairies to produce low-fat soft ripened cheeses that taste as good as the full-fat versions.
f all the major dairy categories, cheese is among the least developed when it comes to sales of reduced fat products.
which is undesirable in a category where the only ingredients listed are usually milk, salt, rennet and culture.
and so is the potential for increased sales in this underdeveloped sub-category of the dairy market,
the TE has been deployed in both an artificial stomach model and a pig stomach. Whilst the image system has yet to be fitted to the device
and pig hearts that had suffered from attacks and was found to drive tissue regeneration. In pigs that had suffered from a heart attack,
blood pumped out of the left ventricle was reduced from the normal 50 percent to 30 percent.
The patch was also found to considerably reduce scarring of the pig's heart tissue.
Such artificial bones have already been implanted successfully in pigs and other animals, but we still need to demonstrate that this method will work for humans.
which so far have only been performed on pigs and mice, the fizzy tincture was shown to propel the chemicals deep into the tissue,
2015nanotech could rid cattle of ticks, with less collateral damage September 1st, 2015scientists'squeeze'light one particle at a time:
an assistant professor of animal and dairy science in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental sciences. his is proof of concept that extracellular matrix can be used to ensheathe a functioning electrode without the use of any other foreign
and the release of milk during nursing. Further, oxytocin helps regulate cardiac functions and fluid levels.
The results of the research group of Valuation of resources from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid suggest an optimal solution to manage the manure from chicken and cattle.
and Mining engineering and Agricultural production of UPM shows that the biochar produced from manure of cattle,
pigs and chicken is an organic fertilizer with a high content of nutrients, stabilized organic material and high values of cation exchange capacity.
#Cooking up altered states When milk is churned, the fat molecules in it come closer to form aggregates.
Lemon juice increases milk's acidity and creates similar molecular lumps. Yet butter and curd are not solids because in both cases,
"The Manchester and Sweden team took lungs from pigs and transplanted them either using the normal transplant method or after three hours of EVLP,
which consists of the Vesicular stomatitis virus (pathogenic in livestock, but harmless in humans) with the Ebola surface protein stitched onto it,
Colloidal dispersions are composed of such everyday items such as paint, milk gelatin, glass, and porcelain, but their potential to create new materials remains largely untapped.
Such an ability is important for numerous applications such as animal reproduction cell immunotherapy, and biological research. ecause the device is built on a lab-on-a chip system,
#Researchers Smash Records with Pig-to-Primate Organ transplants With the financial aid of a biotechnology executive whose daughter may need a lung transplant,
The researchers say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for 945 days
The experiments used organs from pigs umanizedwith the addition of as many as five human genes, a strategy designed to stop organ rejection.
The GM pigs are being produced in Blacksburg Virginia, by Revivicor, a division of the biotechnology company United Therapeutics.
That company founder and co-CEO, Martine Rothblatt, is noted a futurist who four years ago began spending millions to supply researchers with pig organs
Rothblatt says her goal is to create n unlimited supply of transplantable organsand to carry out the first successful pig-to-human lung transplant within a few years.
In addition to GM pigs, her company is carrying out research on tissue-engineered lungs and cryopreservation of organs. ee turning xenotransplantation from
Some researchers agree with Rothblatt that the latest results mean pig-to-human transplants are plausible. think it possible;
He said he would transplant a genetically engineered pig organ into a patient today, were the patient situation desperate enough.
and she has outlined plans for a facility able to breed 1, 000 pigs a year,
The human body reacts even more strongly to pig tissue since pigs are genetically more distant. All human tests of pig organs have ended quickly, and badly.
A Los angeles woman who got a pig liver in 1992 died within 34 hours. The last time a doctor transplanted a pig heart into a person, in India in 1996,
he was arrested for murder. Researchers continue to work with pigs because theye in ready supply,
and the organs of young pigs are about the right size. In order to beat the rejection problem,
researchers began trying to genetically modify the animals. One major step came in 2003 when David Ayares
a cofounder of Revivicor, created pigs whose organs lacked a sugar molecule that normally lines their blood vessels.
That molecule was the major culprit behind what called hyperacute rejection, which had destroyed almost instantaneously transplanted pig organs.
Removing the sugar molecule helped. But it wasn enough. Tests in monkeys showed that other forms of organ rejection still damaged the pig tissue,
albeit more slowly. To combat these effects, Ayares team has made pigs with more and more human genes.
For instance, one gene that been added produces the human version of thrombomodulin, a molecule that prevents clotting in blood vessels.
Although pigs have their own version of thrombomodulin it the wrong shape and doesn work correctly with human blood. e are adding the human genes to the pig
so you have the organ repressing the immune response, rather than have to give a whopping dose of immune suppressants,
says Ayares. By next year, some of the pigs will have as many as eight added human genes.
These genetic changes make their organs more compatible with a human body, but the animals still look
and act like normal pigs. Genetically engineering the pigs isn easy. It challenging to insert human genes
and difficult to get them to function correctly. ou try to put all your genes into one parcel so they go to one place in the genome,
who leads a German consortium developing transgenic pigs. t very cumbersome. Creating a good pig is really like winning the lottery. n the United states,
leading transplant surgeons have been meeting with Revivicor ever few months to plan what genes they like to see added next.
and inserting them into pig cells. It is left to Revivicor to produce piglets from these engineered cells
or 100 iterations. et surgeons credit the genetically enhanced pigs with some recent successes. Muhammad Mohiuddin,
and Blood Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, says a heart from one of Revivicor pigs lasted two and a half years inside a baboon.
Also this summer, transplant experts at the University of Pittsburgh said they kept a baboon alive with one of Revivicor pig kidneys for more than four months.
That set a record for the longest ife-sustainingxenotransplant between a pig and a primate.
the pig heart was attached to the baboon circulatory system and was able to beat, but it didn have to do the work of pumping blood,
Mohiuddin says the pig heart gave out only when he decided to stop giving the baboon the novel immune-blocking drugs he had used. e believe it could have gone on forever,
and 40 percent due to better drugs. eichart calls the survival of these pig hearts major breakthrough.
That is because surgeons still need to completely replace a baboon heart with one from these pigs
where pig lungs are being perfused with human blood in the laboratory as a way of measuring the immune response. he wants genetically modified lungs for personal reasons,
In recent tests of such techniques, called warm perfusion, scientists have shown they can cut off a pig leg then replace it 12 hours later
when transplanted in rats and pigs. A mini-kidney scanned from the bottom of the organoid to the top.
and tested it inside a pig stomach. The capsule itself is a simple structure, 13mm in diameter,
Further tests using a pig stomach proved that the capsule could be manoeuvred around using an IR remote control
New frontiers in ecological economyin her thesis Kuosmanen used established methods of frontier estimation to evaluate sustainability performance of Finnish dairy farms.
and catheters coated with the material in large blood vessels in pigs and it prevented blood from clotting for at least eight hours without the use of blood thinners such as heparin.
and lasting for more than eight hours to prevent clots in a pig under relatively high blood flow rates without the use of heparin the TLP coating achieved the following results:
or simply to advise you that the milk in your fridge has gone off.""The possibilities are endless. l
and human activities, such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock.""Human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
But some ranchers find that even their livestock won tolerate the saltiness of this water. t useful to install a small-scale desalination system where people are
and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,
What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?
In sheep, the first test subjects, the meniscus regenerated in four to six weeks. The body degenerates the scaffold
or be used to look at contamination, for example in food or milk. The team has been able to convert the mobile phone into a sensitive E-coli or giardia detector,
In agriculture, bacteria-robot model systems could enable robust studies that explore the interactions between soil bacteria and livestock.
#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d-printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
if the milk is fit for drinking and to alert if the milk has gone off."
"The idea being trialed is a"smart cap"a device to be placed inside a milk carton to sense the quality of the milk inside.
This represents a breakthrough in terms of three dimensional printing of electronic circuits. Polymers are poor conductors of electricity
The basis of this led to the production of the sensor cap for milk cartons.
Sung-Yueh Wuuc Berkeley engineers created a mart capusing 3d-printed plastic with embedded electronics to wirelessly monitor the freshness of milk.
The sensor was tested on various cartons of milk, some held at room temperature and some in a refrigerator.
which milk goes off). The potential for such technology goes beyond milk cartons. As lead researcher Liwei Lin notes:"
"One day, people may simply download 3d printing files from the Internet with customized shapes and colors and print out useful devices at home."
Tulare is also the top dairy producing country in the U s. That means a lot of cows,
Biofuels, clean energy, renewable energy, biofuels, biogas, cow manure, waste diversion, Pixley, Calgren, Regensis, Tulare County, DVO, California Energy Commission, dairy industry, San joaquin valley
The process starts with a nearby dairy, Four J Farms. Cow manure from the 1,
800 milk-producing cattle will flow down a pipeline to the Calgren plant. The manure is deposited then into the DVO-designed digester that is 16 feet deep
California dairy industry is not going away anytime soon, so plants like that of Calgren can help diversify the economy
while mitigating the dairy farmsenvironmental effects. But before one visualizes a biodigester at every pasture,
For sensitive beverages like juice, tea, milk-based mixed drinks, beverages with solid-fruit or cereal constituents,
Krones has upgraded its corporate capabilities in terms of process technology for producing juice and milk. HST designs and manufactures homogenisers and piston pumps for the food and beverage industries,
Sam Wang, manager of a livestock farm in central Taiwan, is a convert. ur pregnancy success rate increased by 20 percent after we started using this gadget
and mixing them in a topical solution that was applied to pig skin. Bhargava's laboratory used vibrational spectroscopic techniques to identify the molecular structure of the nanoparticles and their cargo."
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
But some ranchers find that even their livestock wont tolerate the saltiness of this water.
and even livestock would have embedded their own sensors that report information directly to networked servers,
In testing the capsules in pigs, the researchers found that the rings expanded into their original shape within 15 minutes of ingestion
who has used grafts built on scaffolds made from pig muscle to rebuild damaged leg muscles in 13 people."
At the same time, farm animals could be screened comprehensively. Farmers that are able to identify viruses affecting the health
The first two approaches were tested on human cells, the last on pig cells. A shining achievement (Image:
Since the first antibacterial drugs were introduced in the 1940s bacteria have evolved ways to resist every new antibiotic that has been developed--a process that has been accelerated by the use of antibiotics in livestock to help them gain weight
The wastewater comes from the local Tine dairy and is rich in organic acids, which are ideal for this process.
The team transplanted six pigs with livers that had been kept for nine hours, roughly the average time between recovery of the organ and transplantation into a recipient, in the MP system and another six with organs placed in the standard container.
They found that 100 percent of the pigs who got MP livers survived compared to 33 percent of those who received conventionally preserved organs.
Also,"it was immediately obvious to us that the pigs who received MP livers looked much healthier
including the region containing the milk-utilization gene.''Once that region was gone, the bacteria could no longer preserve milk,
yet the cells were still alive, 'Selle said.''That result showed that this area was expendable and not essential to bacterial survival when not growing in milk.'
'That result also contained a surprise for the researchers. Cutting out one of the islands--the one that contained the milk-utilization genes--reduced the genome by about 5 percent.
Overall, elimination of all four areas reduced the genome by 7 percent.''We did not expect that magnitude of reduction in a relatively small genome,
and tested the microspheres'effectiveness in pigs with induced heart attacks. The researchers observed that the microspheres were not toxic
who sees the LLMDA as potentially being useful for cattle and poultry diagnostic tests, as well as for pets, such as dogs and cats. he most interesting thing that wee found in our work is that wee been able to pick up not only
oral fluid and tonsils from pigs that have co-infections of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and Porcine circovirus-2 (PCV-2). The LLMDA easily identified PRRSV and PCV-2,
or so. e decided to add a goat, which goes around and eats hay, so you have a much smaller pile
and how hungry you want your goat to be said, he. ur paper basically shows there a small window in which you can design them to get very high specificity.
and sink (the goat) are sequence-specific DNA molecules that root out single-nucleotide variant targets in solutions that also include healthy ild-typesequences.
which is native to Alberta. ighorn sheep are an important symbol of Alberta and Canada wild spaces.
using genomic methods learned over the course of his Phd to identify individuals that can be part of a captive breeding program u
and mixing them in a topical solution that was applied to pig skin. However, scientists have to make sure they coated particles properly,
In testing the capsules in pigs, the researchers found that the rings expanded into their original shape within 15 minutes of ingestion
#A Better Way to Keep Milk Fresh Sometime this week a large milk refrigerator will arrive in Dhaka, the capital of bangladesh.
Since Bangladesh produces nearly four million tons of milk per year, that hardly seems remarkable; but this is a special kind of refrigerator.
Rural dairy farmers on the subcontinent bring their milk to village collection centers that typically rely on diesel generators, a costly, dirty way of providing electricity.
how to keep milk cold without burning diesel fuel. Theye been selling refrigerators in India for two years;
The dairy collection center in Chetawala, in the state of Rajasthan, estimates that it saves around 40,000 rupees ($628) a month on diesel fuel and reduced milk spoilage since installing a Rapid Milk Chiller
The center has increased its average daily milk production from 500 liters a day to around 800.
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