It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow ... protein interactions. Amyloid fibrils are thought to be linked directly to manifestation of diseases such ...

Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But they’re a common food for some 2 million people, and ...

Researchers are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans ...

The infected 1-year-old buck was harvested November 23 on private land less than 10 miles from borders with Calumet and ...

The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could someday jump to humans, but many hunters are ...

UK ministers may lift a ban introduced during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis on the use of animal remains ...

"For example, if you are a male and your donor is a female and you do a blood DNA test your results will show that you are a ...

The virus was identified through sequencing of serum sampes from patients in China with fever and recent tick bites.

The new rule affords another small measure of closure from the BSE crisis that first hit Canada’s cattle producers in May 2003, when the country’s first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, ...

Traditional animal protein producers ... suspended exports to China after the identification of two cases of mad cow disease in the country. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE ...

Then, due to the prion's very stable protein structure, they're able to stay infectious ... Probably more commonly known as mad cow disease.” When someone eats beef contaminated with Mad Cow disease, ...