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Learn about how the University of Edinburgh is making its laboratories more sustainable, and encouraging lab users to do the same. For more information on sustainable laboratories, visit…
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April 29th, 2021
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Inaugural lecture of Professor Simone Meddle Personal Chair of Behavioural NeuroendocrinologyProfessor Simone Meddle will discuss research showing how the environment regulates the reproductive…
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October 28th, 2019
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In this podcast episode, we interview Dr Lissa Herron from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh on
her research. Quote: "In chickens
you can make human proteins that are of a…
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Hanna Peach Licence Type
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April 1st, 2019
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Inaugural lecture of Professor John Hickey, Profesor of Animal BreedingBreeding improves the efficiency, productivity, profitability and environmental impact of agriculture. Chickens in the…
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May 27th, 2019
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2018 was an exciting year at The Roslin Institute,
filled with news-worthy research, awards, scientific and public events,
training courses and more.
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Inaugural lecture by Professor Geoff Simm, Professor of Global Agriculture and Food SecurityRecorded 3/12/2018 at the Roslin Auditorium. Abstract:Feeding the world's growing population well -…
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Nick Kelly Licence Type
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December 5th, 2018
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Professor Helen Sang tells us about the advantages of
transgenesis for animal health.
Video and animation produced by Sonal Katyal MSc.
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Professor Bruce Whitelaw explains how transgenesis
could be used to e.g. produce mosquitoes that do not transmit malaria.
Video and animation produced by Sonal Katyal MSc.
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Roslin researcher Gus McFarlane explains how this gene
editing tool works and how powerful it can be for studying biology. Video and
animation produced by Sonal Katyal MSc and The Zoom Club.
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Gus McFarlane talks of how humans have been modifying
the genetic information of animals for thousands of years, resulting sometimes
in undesirable traits, and how gene editing techniques have the…
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Professor Bruce Whitelaw tells us about current and
future applications of genome editing. This
is a powerful tool for preventing diseases as it can be used for instance for
producing pigs…
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Dr Chris Proudfoot explains what gene editing is all
about and how it works.
Video and animation produced by Sonal Katyal
MSc.
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In this video and animation produced by Sonal Katyal
MSc, Roslin PhD student Gus McFarlane explains how genetic modification,
through a process called transgenesis, works and its potential to…
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In
this video and animation produced by Sonal Katyal MSc, Dr Simon Lillico
explains how scientists have used gene editing at The Roslin Institute to
produce pigs resistant to the PRRS virus.
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Scientists have produced pigs that can resist one of the
world’s most costly animal diseases, by changing their genetic code. Tests with the virus – called Porcine Reproductive…
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June 21st, 2018
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Prion diseases are a unique group of brain diseases in animals and humans which cause extensive damage to nerve cells in the brain, to which there is currently no effective treatment or cure. Some…
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jdurkin Licence Type
All rights reserved The University of Edinburgh Language
english Date Created
April 2nd, 2018
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