Posts Tagged ‘mad cow disease’
Blood test to find ‘mad cow’ signatures
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Signature particles in the blood stream make a simple test for mad cow disease a possibility. Continue…
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:58 - 0 Comments
Health & Medicine - Oct 29, 2010 12:40 - 0 Comments
Size matters for Mad Cow proteins
BROWN (US) — How do prion proteins—the infectious agents in Mad Cow disease—become transmissible? A new study suggests size—not number— determines their efficiency in spreading. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 6, 2009 17:00 - 2 Comments
‘Mad-cow’ proteins differ unexpectedly
VANDERBILT (US)—The first direct information about the molecular structure of prions, the infectious proteins responsible for “mad cow” disease, reveals surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs created in the lab. (more…)
