Christine Tait-Burkard

TL;DR: Recent progress in the application of genome editing to farmed animal species is reviewed and the potential impact on the ability to produce food is discussed.

TL;DR: Genome editing offers new opportunities to livestock breeding for disease resistance, allowing the direct translation of laboratory research into disease-resistant or resilient animals.

TL;DR: A multiplex assay using well-established SARS-CoV-2 targets alongside a human cellular control and a viral spike-in control, which monitor sample quality and nucleic acid extraction efficiency, and demonstrates the feasibility of establishing a robust RT-qPCR assay at approximately 10% of the cost of equivalent commercial assays, which could benefit low-resource environments and make high-volume testing affordable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a national WBE program across 28 WWTPs serving 50% of the population of Scotland, including large conurbations, as well as low-density rural and remote island communities.