Veterinary Sciences
Veterinary sciences integrates biology, medicine, and animal science to protect and promote the health of animals and humans alike. This field plays a vital role in public health by ensuring food safety, preventing zoonotic diseases from spreading between animals and humans, and contributing to environmental conservation.
You can rely on veterinary sciences as the foundation for ethical care and treatment of animals, including pets, livestock, and laboratory animals.
How Hamilton Supports Veterinary Sciences Workflows
Veterinary sciences employ a broad range of laboratory techniques to identify pathogens, detect the presence of specific compounds in an organism, and monitor the physiological and immunological responses to a disease or treatment. Hamilton provides many off-the-shelf and customized solutions to support an automated workflow, including:
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Sample Handling and Pre-Analytics
Pooling and/or aliquoting of samples such as blood or milk, and nucleic acid extraction.
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Immunoassays (e.g. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) screening, raw milk testing, and the detection of antibiotics.
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Molecular Diagnostics (e.g. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
BVD screening, nucleic acid extraction, PCR setup, and genotyping.
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Analytical Chemistry (e.g. Mass Spectrometry)
Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) sample preparation from blood.
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Microbiology
Testing meat and other matrices for food-borne pathogens.
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Good to Know About Veterinary Sciences
This section provides a selection of additional resources related to the application described on this page. It includes helpful articles, videos, and blogs that offer deeper insights into the topic.
Useful Links
External resources not written by Hamilton but valuable for understanding the topic, such as industry guidelines, explanatory videos, or relevant tools.
| Food Safety - World Organization for Animal Health | Read Article |
| The One Health Movement; Animals, Environment, and Us | Ralph Richardson | TEDxICC | Watch Video |
What Is the Difference Between Veterinary Sciences and Veterinary Medicine?
Veterinary sciences and veterinary medicine are closely related but distinct fields. Veterinary sciences focus on the scientific study of animal health, including basic research, disease prevention, and the broader aspects of animal biology, ecology, and welfare. It encompasses a wide range of disciplines, such as pathology, microbiology, epidemiology, and animal behavior.
On the other hand, veterinary medicine is more focused on the clinical aspect, covering the diagnosis, treatment, and care of sick or injured animals. Veterinary sciences lay the groundwork, while veterinary medicine puts that knowledge into action to care for animals.
Where Veterinary Sciences is Used (Industries and Purposes)
Agriculture
Veterinary sciences are crucial for maintaining the health of livestock, ensuring the safety of animal-derived food products, and preventing diseases that could impact animals and humans (zoonotic diseases).
Pharmaceuticals
Veterinary sciences play a key role in developing medications, vaccines, and animal therapeutics, helping improve animal health and welfare across various species. Additionally, veterinary sciences are essential in the care and management of laboratory animals used in research, ensuring their health and well-being while maintaining ethical standards and compliance with regulations. This is vital for producing reliable results in developing human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and understanding disease mechanisms.
Public Health
Veterinary scientists contribute to public health by monitoring diseases affecting animals and humans, ensuring food safety, and supporting the One Health approach to address interconnected health issues.
Wildlife Conservation
Veterinary sciences are essential for studying and protecting wildlife, managing endangered species, and understanding ecosystem health to preserve biodiversity and prevent disease outbreaks in wildlife populations.
What Is One Health?
One Health is a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach recognizing the connection between human, animal, and environmental health. It recognizes that the health of people, animals, and the environment is deeply connected, and what affects one often affects the others. For example, diseases that affect animals can spread to humans (zoonotic diseases), and environmental factors like pollution can influence both human and animal health.
Although the concept has existed for over a century, it gained formal recognition in the early 2000s as global health challenges like pandemics and antimicrobial resistance highlighted the need for interdisciplinary collaboration. One Health encourages cooperation between veterinary sciences and medicine, public health, and environmental science to tackle complex health issues and promote global well-being.
Hamilton supports the One Health approach with tools that help researchers monitor, prevent, and respond to emerging health threats across species and environments.
Veterinary Science Case Studies and Application Notes
Other Veterinary Sciences Resources
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Browse app notes, user guides, specification documents, and more in our Knowledge Center.
Browse app notes, user guides, specification documents, and more in our Knowledge Center.
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