VT Digger: Vermont Farmers are covering good ground for soil health

29th March 2021 By Admin

This commentary is by Bob Foster, a dairy farmer at Foster Brothers Farm in Middlebury. The farm supplies milk for Cabot cheese products through the Agri-Mark cooperative. The farm also recycles cow manure to produce a line of compost products called Moo Doo, which are sold around the Northeast. Foster is a member of the board of directors for the Soil Health Institute.

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BARDA, Department of Defense, and SAb Biotherapeutics to Partner to Develop a Novel COVID-19 Therapeutic

6th April 2020 By Admin

Published by Medical Counter Measures

A therapeutic to treat novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is moving forward in development through a partnership between BARDA, the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JPEO – CBRND), and SAb Biotherapeutics, Inc. (SAb), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Using an interagency agreement with JPEO’s Medical CBRN Defense Consortium, BARDA transferred approximately $7.2 million in funding to (JPEO – CBRND) to support SAb to complete manufacturing and preclinical studies, with an option to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial.

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Agri-Pulse: Can cows be used to fight coronavirus?

30th March 2020 By Admin

Bovine plasma donors genetically engineered to produce human antibodies are in the front lines of the struggle against coronavirus.

SAB Biotherapeutics, a Sioux Falls, S.D., biotechnology company that has been successfully testing use of antibodies from cows to fight diseases such as another coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome, now is engaged in developing a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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