Tags: biotechnology

ILRI News on biotechnology

28 May 2020

Diagnostic tests for COVID-19: How useful are they?

Women working in the advanced animal health laboratories of ILRI, in Nairobi, Kenya (photo credit: ILRI/David White). Last week, in one of a series of weekly townhalls held by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), an ILRI scientist updated ILRI staff and partners on the diagnostic...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

ILRI News

16 May 2020

The good and not-so-good news about the state of COVID-19 vaccine development: A primer from ILRI

Jimmy Smith, director general of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), holds a weekly town hall for the 600-plus staff of the institute as well as staff from many of ILRI partners who are hosted on ILRI campuses in Nairobi, Addis Ababa and elsewhere. In the town hall last week,...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

ILRI News

17 Dec 2019

ILRI scientists are applying advanced ‘nanovaccinology’ in development of new vaccines against devastating tropical livestock diseases

Artistic render of a nanoparticle (photo credit: University of California at Berkeley/Mathew Tirrell) Smaller than 100 nanometres in diameter—about 60 times smaller than the width of human hair and comparable in size to microscopic structures within cells—synthetically produced nanoparticles are...

Ekta PatelBioscience Communications Manager

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Publications on biotechnology

Journal Article

Published2019

The role of public research agencies in building agri-food bioscience impact and innovation capacity in sub-Saharan Africa: The challenge beyond science capability

Journal Article

Published2019

Metagenomics analysis of cocoa bean fermentation microbiome identifying species diversity and putative functional capabilities

News Item

Published2019

The next generation of African women scientists are honing their skills at BecA-ILRI Hub

News Item

Published2019

ILRI’s BecA-Hub is using cutting-edge science to help Africa achieve food and nutrition security

Journal Article

Published2019

iMAP: An integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis

Poster

Published2018

Accelerating Africa’s agricultural development through biosciences

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ILRI Projects on biotechnology

Active

Jan 2011Dec 2013

Comparative genome sequence analysis to identify disease and traits related genes under different selection pressures during chicken domestication

Objectives: • To identify candidate genes associated with disease resistance and economic traits through an analysis of signature of selection (SOS) between Asian and African lineage poultry. • To conduct statistical modeling of marker-assisted gene introgression (MAI) based on disease...

Active

Jan 2010Dec 2012

Production of disease tolerant cloned cattle in Africa

Objectives: 1. To reproduce herd through reproductive technique on cattle with disease tolerance in Africa 2. To maximize livestock production through establishment of embryo production with disease tolerance 3. To secure genetic diversity according to production of cloned animal with disease...

Active

Jul 2011Jul 2013

Characterization of Theileria parva specific cytotoxic T. cells

Objectives: The overall objective of the project is to generate a profile of the specific CD8 cells, generated towards T. parva regarding cytokine expression, surface activation markers and memory markers from cattle immunized with the live vaccine. This profile can be used as a guideline for what...

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