Institute of Animal Genetics

National Research Institute of Animal Production, Department of Animal Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics... 

The Scientific American (www.sciam.com, 2001) reported a study at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (United States) in which two mouse strains were genetically engineered to produce large quantities of a malarial parasite surface protein from Plasmodium falciparum. The malaria vaccine secreted in their milk was able to contain the disease in monkeys vaccinated with the same. This study has now been extrapolated to target livestock as the source animals. GTC is currently... 

One of the internationally acclaimed Divisions of Biological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore consists of the Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology Cell Biology, Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Molecular Biophysics and Ecological Sciences. The Division has a good small animal facility, a Primate Research Laboratory and a Bioinformatics... 

Stewart for the generous donation of plasmid constructs and advice regarding genetic manipulation of Borrelia, Steve Porcella for assisting with B. hermsii sequences and Mike Minnick for critical review of this text. The animal use protocol utilized in this study was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories. This work was supported by the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. 

GROENEVELD E, KOVAC M and MiELENZ N (2008) VCE useFs guide and reference manual, version 6.0. Neustadt Institute of Farm Animal Genetics. 

Tsuneo Kada and Koichi Hirano Department of Induced Mutation, National Institute of Genetics, Misima, Sizuoka-ken 411, Japan. Yasuhiko Shirasu Toxicology Division, Institute of Environmental Toxicology, Kodaira, Tokyo 187, Japan. Dr. Hirano s present address is Laboratories of Animal Science and Toxicology, Sankyo Co., Ltd., Fukuroi, Sizuoka-ken 437, Japan. This chapter is Contribution No. 1209 of the National Institute of Genetics, Misima, Sizuoka 411, Japan. 

JRC is structured into seven institutes, one of these being the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection (IHCP). The IHCP activities are related to genetically modihed organisms, biotechnology, chemicals and risk assessment, nano-biotechnology, exposure to environmental stressors, food contact materials and consumer products, and alternative methods to animal testing (IHCP 2006). 

The Food Alliance has both fixed standards, which specifically prohibit the use of feed additives or subtherapeutic antibiotics, growth hormones, and genetically modified stock, and scored standards, which focus on more particular practices such as feed production, pasture management, manure management, and animal pest management. The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has also setup operational standards called the Humane Husbandry Criteria that farmers who produce meat for companies such as Niman Ranch voluntarily implement in order to receive the AWI certification. 

The conduct of scientific experiments involving animals is strictly regulated by most governments and institutions. Scientists must consult with the relevant regulatory bodies before commencing on any experiment involving genetic... 

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