By a GenomeWeb staff reporter
Non-profit firm Diagnostics for All today said it has received a two-year, $3 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK’s Department for International Development to develop inexpensive agriculture diagnostic tests for livestock health and other purposes in sub-Saharan Africa.
The several tests will be designed to identify milk spoilage, cows with infections and determine when cows are in heat or pregnant.
Another test will to identify aflatoxin, a potent hepatocarcinogen found in grain mold.
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