The project is aimed at connecting the latest, greatest computing and data management technology to the fight against widespread livestock disease. (sciencedaily.com)
Establish links of emerging livestock diseases and new diseases strains related to climate change. (icpac.net)
Scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and the National Institute for Agronomical Research (INRA) will join forces to use new synthetic biology technologies to create strains of Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides that can be developed as live vaccine candidates for the prevention of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, an economically very important livestock disease within Africa. (jcvi.org)