In November of this year, the world population reached an astounding 8 billion people. To support the accompanying increase in food demand, beef and sheep farmers are using scientific interventions for assistance.

Malaria is probably one of the most known diseases around the world, yet the cure for it remains to be invented. All that can be done right now is try to control and prevent the spread of the disease. This is what researchers at the Parasitology and Public Health Unit at Federal University of Technology Akure in Nigeria are currently working on.

In our last story we talked about how animals can help to improve human health. This time we are talking about how humans could improve the health of animals, more specifically the health of horses and donkeys.

The world is continuously moving towards developing better healthcare for all living beings, which requires more efficient ways to study diseases and biomedical issues. This includes studies on genetically modified animals that researchers have been working on for years at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) lead by Benjamin Schusser, Angelika Schnieke, Christian Kupatt and Benedikt Kaufer (FU Berlin).