Moredun News

Moredun Scientific is using experimental models of infectious and non-infectious gill disease to support several research and commercial projects that are aimed at better understanding and controlling gill disease in...

Enhanced Online Tool for Cattle Faecal Egg Counts Parasitologists at Moredun have released a new version of ‘FEC Check’ for interpreting faecal egg counts from cattle. The farmer-facing, free, online...

Across the world, farmers and governments are under growing pressure to address emissions from livestock, leading to calls to reduce livestock numbers. It is believed that improving animal health may...

The new podcast series from the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) offering yet another tool to the UK sheep industry on this essential topic. Episode 1: Tues 16th July ...

Moredun Scientific, together with Intervacc AB, has been awarded a grant from the Eurostars-3 programme to further develop Intervacc’s prototype vaccine against Streptococcus suis infections in pigs.  Moredun Scientific will develop a...

A collaborative research team has been awarded a £1.1million grant to tackle the devastating impact of Maedi-visna (MV), a chronic infectious disease affecting sheep and goats. This groundbreaking project seeks...

The Moredun Research Institute, in collaboration with leading partners, has been awarded a £1.2M grant to explore the mechanism of resistance to the macrocyclic lactone (ML) injectables in the sheep...

Moredun colleagues past and present were very sad to hear the news of the death of Dr Hugh Reid who was world renowned for his research into viruses and developing...

While the cold and quite often wet weather in early spring made lambing harder work than usual in many parts of the UK, the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep...

While roundworm activity so far this season has been relatively low, the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) Group says the recent temperature increase means this could change quickly...