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Caption for May/June 2012 Agricultural Research magazine article, "Strategies That Work: Alternatives to Antibiotics in Animal Health." In a milking parlor at Ames, Iowa, molecular biologist John Lippolis collects milk samples for tests to see whether vitamin D reduces the severity of mastitis.
Caption for August 2008 Agricultural Research magazine article, "Shotgun Proteomics: Detecting the Dairy Cow Immune Response Is a High-Tech Blast." In a milking parlor at the ARS National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, molecular biologist John Lippolis collects milk samples from a Jersey cow in an effort to answer basic questions about infection mechanisms in dairy cattle.
Photo by Stephen Ausmus.