Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease ... First, infectious prions isolated from brain tissue contain PrPSc. A process called purification removes molecules that are not ...

Soon enough, the ailment had a formal name: bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... by eating meat infused with contaminated ...

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy ... these fibrils can be deposited in tissue-destroying plaques throughout the body, including in the brain. It is now known that prions ...

According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

There is currently no treatment for the rare but lethal brain disease ... the version linked to eating beef infected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. Sporadic CJD happens when healthy ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a brain disorder in cattle that can ... destroys their brains by eating away the nerve tissue. The first recorded case in the UK was in 1986.