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Theories on the Cause of Mad Cow Disease Mad cow disease is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is also found in humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob ......(Continue Reading)Researchers: Urine test may help detect mad cow disease - Brief Article A simple urine test can identify transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which could help prevent blood donations by human carriers and large-scale culling of unaffected cattle. These are the findi...(Continue Reading)Mad cow disease, human illness tied - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Results of two studies confirm similarities between mad cow disease and a brain disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Mice injected with brain ......(Continue Reading)Prions make amends Because one kind of prion causes "mad cow disease," prions in general get a lot of bad press. The very word "prion" may conjure horrific ......(Continue Reading)Prion proof? Evidence grows for mad cow protein Even as scientist Stanley B. Prusiner was accepting a Nobel prize in 1997 for linking misfolded proteins to certain brain diseases, doubters were pointing ......(Continue Reading) |