Is the Genie Out of the Bottle? Can you trust ChatGPT in scientific writing?

Differences between veterinary articles difficult to determine

23-Oct-2023 - Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, L.L.C. in San Francisco, CA, USA, has garnered the attention of the scientific community. As debates about ChatGPT’s impact on every aspect of academia surge worldwide, a team from the University of ...

Back to culture - Corona sniffer dogs’ real-life feasibility study was successful

The overall rate of concordant results was almost 100 percent

15-Nov-2022 - Research led by University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo), in cooperation with Hannover Medical School (MHH), Robert Koch Institute, Hannover Concerts, ProEvent Hannover and AWiAS Aviation Services GmbH, examined whether trained corona detection dogs can be used in everyday life. For the ...

Canine Diag’noses’

Dogs can detect SARS-CoV-2 infected humans on all tested body fluids with high accuracy

25-Aug-2021 - A research team led by the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo), in cooperation with the Bundeswehr, the Hannover Medical School and the University Medical-Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, published a new study and a review article in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases on detection dogs ...

Testing chemicals without animal testing on rodents

Replacement method with locusts to test whether chemicals cause neurological developmental disorders in children

11-Jul-2019 - In recent years, the number of neurological developmental disorders in children has increased. Epidemiological data suggest that lifestyle factors and chemicals used in our environment contribute to this. Scientists from the Institute of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Veterinary ...

New vaccine against Middle East respiratory syndrome virus MERS tested on dromedary camels

22-Dec-2015 - An international research project with the involvement of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Animal Health Research Centre (IRTA-CReSA), has designed a vaccine shown to be effective in protecting dromedaries against the coronavirus (CoV) that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome ...

The gene that turns ponies into large horses

TiHo researchers discover genetic causes of the body sizes of horses

18-Feb-2013 - Ponies have a maximum height of 148 centimetres. When the height at the withers is greater, they are deemed to be large horses. Scientists at the Institute for Animal Breeding and Genetics at University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (TiHo) have investigated genetic causes for different body ...

Matthias Greiner appointed Head of Department at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

09-Aug-2011 - Risks which can be involved in foods and articles of daily use are diverse and complex. In order to determine a possible risk for consumers, information about the intake amounts of pathogens and contaminants are necessary. A focal area or research at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment ...