Moredun Research Institute

Production-purpose antibiotics are one of the great Faustian bargains of the modern era: mankind has traded increased livestock yields today for AMR tomorrow. We propose that microalgae can be readily engineered to express a wide range of naturally occurring antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory compounds which can both substitute for production-purpose ant...

As the world population grows and becomes more affluent, an increasing number of people include protein in their diet. Aquaculture is the fastest growing source of animal protein and a major source of income in Asia, South-America and Africa. Tilapia is a popular fish, both with farmers and consumers, but disease can cause massive losses on tilapia farms....

UK Atlantic salmon aquaculture produces 150,000 tonnes of fish per year, with high quality food products valued at more than £1 billion in retail sales. Sea lice, parasitic crustaceans infecting salmon in the sea, are a key constraint to the sustainability of farmed salmon protein production, costing UK industry more than £30 million per year to control. ...

Microwave volumetric heating (MVH), a unique technology developed by Advanced Microwave Technology (AMT) Ltd for pasteurising liquids, has the potential to inactivate Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP). The key objectives are: 1. To determine MVH thermal inactivation curves for MAP in phosphate buffered saline, 2. To investigate inactiv...