Symposium review: Breeding a better cow—Will she be adaptable?

Slow euthanasia-or "she will be better off in hospital".

PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Dr Emerson clearly identified the site of the process correctly, but this is a different sort of process from the ordinary dissection that he was talking about. Did he have aortic medionecrosis ? DR SMITH: He did not have dissection, with blood tracking through the media. PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Would Dr Emerson like to put it all together with investigations and management ? DR...

Things She Carried (review)

Breeding Better Buildings

C ivil engineers are often very conservative in how they pursue their profession-and for good reason: If their designs don't work, things can fall down and kill people (as the recent bridge collapse in Minnesota so clearly demonstrates). Following novel approaches increases the probability of making such disastrous mistakes. It can therefore be prudent to build on designs that are known to func...

Which method of teaching would be better cooperative or lecture?

Introduction: Most of the knowledge acquired through lecturing is forgotten rapidly. As dentistry is becoming a more complicated field of study and as new techniques are introduced, the use of modern educational approaches to promote lifelong learning becomes necessary. This study is to compare cooperative teaching method and lecture method in terms of their impact on students' learning and the...

Application of myostatin in sheep breeding programs: A review

Myostatin or growth and differentiation factor 8 (GDF8), has been known as the factor causing double muscling phenotypes in which a series of mutations make the myostatin protein inactive, hence disabling it to regulate the deposition of muscle fibre. This phenotype happens with high frequency in a breed of sheep known as the Texel. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) studies show that a portion of t...