Researchers will follow up to 300 participants over two years to examine how often AGS develops after tick bites, which factors may increase risk, how the immune system changes over time and how the condition affects patients’ daily lives and health care use. 

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) conducts assessments of the volumes of antibiotics used in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys, as well as the frequency of treatment across various types of livestock, including purchased calves, dairy cows, fattening piglets and pigs, chickens raised for meat production, laying hens and young hens, and fattening turkeys. The latest report for 2025 shows a slight decline in total consumption of around three per cent compared with the previous year. “Since the introduction of the antibiotic minimisation scheme, the use of substances important for human medicine has been significantly reduced,” says BfR President Professor Andreas Hensel. “Furthermore, slight reductions in antibiotic use are already being recorded in many animal categories newly included in the system. However, a further reduction should be aimed for in the case of animals raised for meat production.”

What if even the most ambitious conservation scenarios were not enough to halt the decline of common biodiversity in Europe? This is the question addressed by a new study co-funded by the BioAgora project, one that assesses how multiple drivers of environmental change (including climate change and land-use change) could affect bird and butterfly populations across Europe by 2050.

A joint research team, including researchers from University of Tsukuba, Ishida Tec Co., Ltd., and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, has demonstrated a noncontact method for estimating the body weight of frozen skipjack tuna by combining three-dimensional (3D) time-of-flight imaging with machine learning. In a proof-of-concept study involving 207 frozen skipjack tuna, the researchers acquired 3D point-cloud data on a conveyor belt and extracted fork length, body height, and body width. A random forest model using all three measurements estimated body weight with a mean absolute error of 0.20 kg for fish weighing up to 7 kg, and agreement with the measured weight classes reached 80.7%, compared with 73.9% for classifications made by experienced market graders.

A new multi-institute study led by Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth researchers suggests that alpha-gal syndrome, the tick-borne disease that can result in a chronic allergy to meat and animal byproducts, also may complicate certain patients' ability to safely receive a blood plasma or platelet transfusion.