The Bureau of Animal Industry has approved the commercial sale of AVAC ASF LIVE, marking the first African swine fever vaccine cleared for fattening pigs in the country. Announced on Wednesday by the Department of Agriculture, the regulatory clearance arrives nearly seven years after the viral disease first struck local herds in 2019, cutting the … Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $1.7 million to launch a project developing a wireless DNA and RNA printer operating entirely inside living yeast cells, according to the University of California, Santa Barbara. Led by UCSB molecular biologist Max Wilson and a multi-university team named LUXCODE, the initiative aims to build a nucleic … Read more
Human infections with highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) remain rare and mild among exposed poultry workers, according to a cohort study published in the journal Eurosurveillance. Researchers investigating outbreak sites in England between April 2023 and March 2025 found that fewer than 1% of monitored individuals met criteria for infection, even as rising animal spillover … Read more