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Category: Research

Date Posted: 30.06.2023

Moredun & NSA webinar: Sheep vaccines, what’s current and what’s coming

Missed our recent webinar, catch up today. This webinar welcomes two industry experts to deliver up to date information on sheep vaccines. Fiona Lovatt, sheep veterinary specialist, outlines the current...

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Date Posted: 30.06.2023

Dr Chris Cousens awarded the NSA Scotland Silver Salver 2023

Congratulations, Dr Chris Cousens has been presented with the NSA Scotland Silver Salver 2023, for her tireless research work on Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma (OPA, also known as Jaagsiekte) and acknowledging...

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Date Posted: 08.06.2023

Collecting good quality faecal samples from sheep

A faecal egg count (FEC) counts the number of worm eggs in faeces (dung) and is used to monitor the worm burden in sheep. The results are presented as ‘eggs...

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Date Posted: 01.06.2023

Help with Poultry red mites

Research into the biology and control of poultry red mite at the Moredun Research Institute continues with major projects underway. Earlier this year we began work on a major vaccine...

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Date Posted: 26.05.2023

FEC Check: Understanding sheep roundworm egg count results at a glance

Parasitologists at Moredun have developed a farmer-facing, free, online tool which helps with the interpretation of faecal egg count results for roundworms in sheep called ‘FEC Check’ with the aid...

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Date Posted: 09.05.2023

Update – Moredun’s participation in The NeoGiANT project

An update about The NeoGiANT project https://www.neogiant.eu/the-project/ Marta Lores Aguín (coordinator of NeoGiANT, Researcher and University Professor at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), talks about this H2020 EU funded project...

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Date Posted: 25.04.2023

BBSRC and Defra invest in zoonotic livestock disease research

BBSRC and Defra have announced a £4 million investment into 10 innovative projects focused on international animal health research. The £4 million joint investment by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences...

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Date Posted: 30.03.2023

New podcast on Sheep scab ‘top of the agenda’ from OnFarm

Listen to our latest On Farm podcast with Monty talking about Sheep scab. There has never been more sheep scab in Scotland than there is at the moment, according to...

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Date Posted: 20.12.2022

Welcome to the Sm@RT newsletter!

Sm@RT – Small Ruminant Technologies – is a research programme to share knowledge and improve uptake of new digital technologies in sheep and goat farming. This EU-funded project, led by...

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Date Posted: 19.12.2022

Development of new rapid diagnostic test to detect multiple pathogens causing bovine respiratory disease complex

Scientists at Moredun Research Institute have developed and validated a new molecular diagnostic test that is capable of detecting seven of the most common pathogens associated with bovine respiratory disease...

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