Tags: biotechnology

ILRI News on biotechnology

08 Apr 2019

Overuse and misuse of antibiotics – a problem driven by the world’s poor and rich alike

Kibera slum alley (photo via Flickr/Ninara) As reported this week by Andrew Jacobs and Matt Richtel in the New York Times , ‘Kibera residents are prodigious consumers of antibiotics’. Kibera area, one of Africa’s largest urban slums, is located in Nairobi, Kenya, with a population of around one...

ILRI clippings

15 Mar 2019

Ekta Patel

Drug resistance could make millions of people poorer

Jimmy Smith (right) and Ochieng’ Ogodo (SciDev.net). A CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub to help integrate and channel research and development efforts in tackling antimicrobial resistance was launched at ILRI Nairobi, Kenya, 21-22 February 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Paul Karaimu). As reported this...

ILRI clippings

24 Jan 2019

Susan MacMillan

Scottish gene-edited chickens produced to help stop bird flu

Gallo, 1977, by Aldemir Martins (via Wikiart). ‘Humans don’t usually get the flu directly from animals, but human outbreaks of bird and swine flu can and do happen. In fact, scientists are so concerned that the next great pandemic will arise from a deadly strain of wild bird influenza that they’ve...

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Publications on biotechnology

Poster

Published2018

Accelerating Africa’s agricultural development through biosciences

Journal Article

Published2015

Non-classical gluconeogenesis-dependent glucose metabolism in Rhipicephalus microplus embryonic cell line BME26

Conference Paper

Published2009

Biotechnology in the livestock Industry: recent advances and applications

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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