2010

News articles released by The Roslin Institute in 2010.

A new partnership has been announced, bringing together Pfizer Animal Health and The Roslin Institute within the EBRC.

The increasing number of climbers scaling Africa's highest peak need to be made more aware of the risks associated with high altitude, researchers warn.

Professor David Hume has been appointed one of 13 new Wolfson Research Merit Awards.

Campers and hikers could be among those to benefit from a £2.5million bid to target the growing health risk posed by ticks.

Michael Moore, the Secretary of State for Scotland visited The Roslin Institute today (Monday 12 July).

Thousands of Labrador Retriever owners are being asked to help find out how a dog's lifestyle affects its health.

Dogs Trust, the UK ™s largest dog welfare charity, is delighted to announce that Professor David J Argyle BVMS PhD DECVIM-CA (Oncology) MRCVS has been elected onto the board of trustees.

Scientists have discovered two "body clock" genes that reveal how seasonal changes in hormones are controlled

In research published in Nature, scientists break the news that they have sequenced the zebra finch genome. This is only the second ever bird genome to be sequenced the first being that of the chicken.

Scientists have found proteins in egg whites could be used to fight infections that cost the chicken industry billions of pounds each year.

Scientists have pinpointed how a key hormone helps animals to recognise others by their smell.

A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries “why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other“ has been solved by researchers.