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Ingenza embarks on ConBioChem collaboration
Wednesday 17th January 2018, 3:00pm

Roslin-based biotech company Ingenza has joined forces with leading universities and industrial partners to participate in the ConBioChem collaboration.

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Scottish Salmon Company announces partnership with Hendrix Genetics
Tuesday 16th January 2018, 4:00pm

The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) has signed a long term agreement with leading international breeding technology company Hendrix Genetics.

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Biological solution to carbon capture and recycling?
Monday 8th January 2018, 1:00pm

Scientists at the University of Dundee, working with Sasol UK and Ingenza Ltd, have discovered that E. coli bacteria could hold the key to an efficient method of capturing and storing or recycling carbon dioxide.

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Benchmark participates in gene editing research to develop disease resistance in salmon
Thursday 7th December 2017, 1:00pm

Benchmark, the aquaculture health, nutrition, and genetics business, is pleased to announce its participation in an important gene editing research project.

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Gene experts set to tackle pest control
Wednesday 6th December 2017, 12:00pm

Experts at The Roslin Institute are to investigate how genetic techniques could be applied to help control pest species.

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GreenCow seen and herd around the world
Tuesday 5th December 2017, 4:00pm

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is making headlines around the world following a visit by Reuters to SRUC’s GreenCow facility at Easter Howgate.

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World leading bioscience innovation centre launches in Midlothian
Friday 1st December 2017, 12:00pm

An innovation hub at the heart of Scotland's world class animal health sector is bringing together academia, research and enterprise to help address global challenges.

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World-leading research recognised with Queen's Anniversary Prize
Thursday 30th November 2017, 12:00pm

The world's longest running study into breeding the ideal dairy cow has led to Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) being awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education - the highest form of national recognition open to educational institutions in the UK.

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New approaches for breeding resistance to Infectious Salmon Anaemia virus
Wednesday 29th November 2017, 3:00pm

Roslin Institute scientists are using genome editing technology to prevent a devastating disease in salmon aquaculture.

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Sheep are able to distinguish each others facial expressions, a new study has revealed
Wednesday 29th November 2017, 12:00pm

People's inability to tell the difference between a happy sheep and an unhappy sheep is the subject of a famous joke in Father Ted, but a new study has revealed that the animals can distinguish each other's facial expressions.

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