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Three Northern Ireland organisations have joined forces to launch a research project to tackle bovine mastitis and lameness in a bid to reduce the use of antibiotics in dairy cattle.
The project will be run by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast in partnership with AgriSearch and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI).
The new approach will involve the use of mass spectrometry – an analytical method using sophisticated laboratory equipment – to develop a rapid diagnosis of mastitis directly from a suspected milk sample.
This will initially use laboratory-based equipment but it’s hoped this could eventually form the basis for an on-site test to further improve result turnaround times.
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Today is Friday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2021. There are 350 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 15, 2020, Chinese officials said they couldn’t rule out the possibility that a new coronavirus in central China could spread between humans, though they said the risk of transmission appeared to be low.
On this date:
In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln’s choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
In 1865, as the Civil War neared its end, Union forces captured Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, depriving the Confederates of their last major seaport.
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Today in History: Chinese officials say they can’t rule out human transmission of novel virus, 2020
Jan 15, 2021
Today is Friday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2021. There are 350 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 15, 2020, Chinese officials said they couldn’t rule out the possibility that a new coronavirus in central China could spread between humans, though they said the risk of transmission appeared to be low.
On this date:
In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln’s choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
In 1865, as the Civil War neared its end, Union forces captured Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, depriving the Confederates of their last major seaport.
Today:
Tonight:
Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. North wind around 5 mph becoming east after midnight.
High temperatures are expected to rise into the upper 70s to low 80s over the course of the week, peaking on Friday.
Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1757 Birth of Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of Treasury, killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.
1843 Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” dies in Baltimore.
1861 Alabama secedes from the Union.
1862 Lincoln accepts Simon Cameron’s resignation as Secretary of War.
1864 Birth of H. George Selfridge, founder of Selfridge and Co., Ltd., coined the phrase “the customer is always right.”