Government Approves Commercial Sale of ASF Vaccine

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

Genetic Newborn Screening for Early-Onset Cancer Risk

Genomic newborn screening using heel-stick blood spots can identify infants at high risk for early-onset cancers before symptoms appear, according to a Nature Communications study led by researchers from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Mass General Brigham, and collaborators. Analyzing archived samples from 1,948 children in Michigan who developed solid or central nervous … Read more