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		<title>The (neglected) ties binding human and animal health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Animal diseases make up 60 per cent of all human pathogens and have a significant impact on poverty. Yet for many years, the worst diseases were sorely neglected by the international community. Eric Fevre describes how this turned around, and what researchers are now doing to tackle it. &#8216;In the far west of rural Kenya, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1340&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sheila Ommeh, her journey through agricultural research and passion for chicken research</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheila Ommeh is one of the few scientists who are devoted chicken research, in this interview, we connect the dots from the moment her initial curiosity on agricultural research was stirred to her current research highlights. Q: Have you always wanted to be a scientist? SO: Yes, my curiosity started in the early 1990s when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1266&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A minor role of CD4+ T lymphocytes in the control of a primary infection of cattle with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. Mycoides: Highlighting our publications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), caused by Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides, is an important livestock disease in Africa. The current control measures rely on a vaccine with limited efficacy and occasional severe side effects. Knowledge of the protective arms of immunity involved in this disease will be beneficial for the development of an improved vaccine. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Day in the Life of the PAZ Project: About the People, Animals and their Zoonoses Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>efevre</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Western Kenya is a part of the world with high human and livestock population densities, representative more largely of the whole Lake Victoria Crescent ecosystem.  This is a rural area (around 95% of households depend on agriculture as their primary source of livelihoods) where farmers are mixed crop-livestock small-holders – families generally grow crops and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1169&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Joachim Frey visits ILRI&#8217;s Biotechnology Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 18, the CBPP team at ILRI Nairobi had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Joachim Frey from the University of Bern in Switzerland. Prof. Frey, the current chair of the International Organization of Mycoplasmology, and one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on CBPP gave a seminar to ILRI staff on ‘Molecular epidemiology of CBPP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1177&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic and expression analysis of cattle identifies candidate genes in pathways responding to Trypanosoma congolense infection: Highlighting our publications</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract African bovine trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma sp., is a major constraint on cattle productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Some African Bos taurus breeds are highly tolerant of infection, but the potentially more productive Bos indicus zebu breeds are much more susceptible. Zebu cattle are well adapted for plowing and haulage, and increasing their tolerance of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1153&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Devoted to the farmer and their cow: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) visit to Biotech’s research project sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dairy Genetics East Africa (DGEA) project’s success hinges on the participation of small holders dairy farmers and their willingness to share their knowledge and practices.  Selected project sites include Kaptumo, Siongiroi, Meteitei, Kabras, Butere/Khwisero in Kenya and Wakiso, Bushyenyi in Uganda.  On 27th of June, a field trip in the Kenyan sites to monitor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1085&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed research efforts to tackle African Swine Fever (ASF), ILRI Biotech/BecA collaborative project in the New Agriculturist</title>
		<link>http://biolives.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/renewed-research-efforts-to-tackle-african-swine-fever-asf-ilri-biotechbeca-collaborative-project-in-the-new-agriculturist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Causing up to 100 per cent mortality in previously unaffected animals, African Swine Fever (ASF) is a devastating disease of pigs. Endemic across much of Africa, the disease poses a wider threat to global food security, particularly in East Asia, where at least 50 per cent of the protein consumed is pork, much of it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Molecular characterization of live Theileria parva sporozoite vaccine stabilates reveals extensive genotypic diversity: Highlighting our publications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Highlighting our publications’ is a new blog series that will feature publications from the Biotech theme.  The success of scientific research is greatly pegged on existing information and published scientific work to provide crucial information and knowledge that is important to the progress of science. Our publications represent the latest results in areas such as: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1049&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korea National Institute of Animal Science project partners visit ILRI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ILRI-RDA (Rural Development of Administration) research project, among the Biotech’s improving characterization of livestock and pathogens (BT02) project is this week (20-25 November) hosting visitors from the National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), Korea. The visitors, Jeong-Ro Ki, director of Planning and Coordination Division, Boh-suk Yang director of Animal Genetic Resources Station and Seong-Heum [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=1030&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How bioscience is revolutionising the 21st century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Animal Health and Genetics&#8217; was an interesting discussion session at last week&#8217;s LiveSTOCK Exchange event. This session was introduced by Vish Nene, the Theme Director of the ILRI Biotech group and he focused on 3 broad areas where science will revolutionize the 21st century. They are: Computer revolution Quantum revolution Bio-molecular revolution Computer Revolution: A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=969&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Genetics Training Resource (AGTR) version 3 Officially Released!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon the new fully Web-enabled platform Animal Genetics Training Resource (AGTR) (http://agtr.ilri.cgiar.org) was launched at the LiveSTOCK Exchange event which took stock of ILRI&#8217;s research over the last ten years at the ILRI Addis Ababa, Ethiopia campus, the event was held on 9-10 November. While launching the new resource, Julie Ojango said that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=946&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LiveSTOCK Exchange video reflections: The Biotech angle</title>
		<link>http://biolives.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/livestock-exchange-video-reflections-the-biotech-angle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the reflection for the November 2011  liveSTOCK Exchange seminar at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Addis Ababa, Biotech scientists: Roger Pelle, Phil Toye, Steve Kemp and Okeyo Mwai share their reflections on some of the changes they have observed and have been part off over the years in a series of  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=933&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable breeding strategies for ruminants in Eastern and Southern Africa: Farmer workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sustainable breeding strategies for ruminants in Eastern and Southern Africa project carried out by the Biotech&#8217;s BT03 (improving the utilization of farm animal genetic resources) team at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) held an enlightening and successful farmer’s workshop on October 12 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=905&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Combating East Coast Fever (ECF); Muguga Cocktail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Coast fever (ECF) is one of the major diseases affecting cattle and among the major livestock diseases that the Biotech team at ILRI is researching on to develop and improve vaccines for. ECF is caused by a tick-borne parasite called Theileria parva and has been affecting cattle in 11 countries in Eastern, Central and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=866&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A tree to celebrate the environmentalist humming bird!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Biotech staff joined the rest of the ILRI family in planting trees across the campus in honor of the late Kenyan Nobel Prize Laureate and environmentalist Wangari Maathai. The Biotech tree was planted behind the main Biotech office, Lab 8. In an interview with John Vidal, Guardian news, Wangari is quoted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=850&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Determining appropriate genotypes for dairy production systems through the Dairy Genetics East Africa (DGEA) project</title>
		<link>http://biolives.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/determining-appropriate-genotypes-for-dairy-production-systems-through-the-dairy-genetics-east-africa-dgea-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the horn of Africa facing serious famine, research experts have been discussing different ways of implementing sustainable solutions to combat this crisis. Among the opportunities identified for this crisis in a media briefing on ‘Research Options for Mitigating Drought-induced Food Crises’  is to have the right kinds of animal breeds in the right environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=785&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the ILRI&#8217;s Biotech Theme 2011 AWARD Fellows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young female scientists play an important role in agriculture development, coupled up with mentorship opportunities these young scientists are bound to leave major landmarks in the agriculture development sector. Among the recently successful 70 AWARD 2011 fellows are 3 remarkable ladies from the Biotechnology theme of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) whose research work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=666&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 AWARD Fellows: Lillian Wambua</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lillian Wambua is one of the 2011 African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellows. Her passion for genetic studies on Animal trypanosomiasis (Nagana) formed the backbone of her PhD degree in Characterization of Trypanosoma congolense-induced endotoxic shock response in mouse models, which she attained in February 2011. She has been studying the components [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=621&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 AWARD Fellows: Nimmo Gicheru</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Katingi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nimmo Gicheru, one of the 2011 African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellows is a PhD student working with the Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP) project at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi, Kenya. CBPP is a disease that greatly impacts on livelihoods of livestock-dependent communities within Africa by restricting market access for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=biolives.wordpress.com&amp;blog=23714659&amp;post=609&amp;subd=biolives&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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