News tagged with bovine
What makes a cow a cow? Complete bovine genome sequenced
Researchers report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals.
Apr 23, 2009 |
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New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier
Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used food preservative ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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A different tune: Cellular IPOD plays role in prion biology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells take advantage of a biologically ancient compartment to sequester prions, an action that can initially prevent the prions’ phenotypic expression, according to Whitehead Institute researchers. While ...
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Apr 28, 2010 |
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Study Offers Evidence That Spongiform Brain Diseases Are Caused By Aberrant Protein
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.
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Jan 28, 2010 |
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Scientists uncover evolutionary origins of prion disease gene
A University of Toronto-led team has uncovered the evolutionary ancestry of the prion gene, which may reveal new understandings of how the prion protein causes diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also ...
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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First nanoscale mass spectrometer created
Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Antibody key to treating variant CJD, scientists find
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have determined the atomic structure of the 'binding' between a brain protein and an antibody that could be key to treating patients with diseases such as variant CJD.
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists today described development of a process for using that so-called meat and bone meal to ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Multitarget drugs against prion diseases
The central nervous systems of humans and cattle alike are attacked by prions (abnormal insoluble amyloidogenic proteins) when they suffer from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) or bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
Mar 21, 2011 |
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New research focuses on prion diseases
New research by Chongsuk Ryou, researcher at the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UK College of Medicine, may shed light on possible treatments for prion ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Mad cow disease: Blood test for vCJD clears hurdle
A blood test to detect rogue prion proteins that cause the human form of mad-cow disease has performed well in an early experiment, British doctors reported in The Lancet on Thursday.
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Feb 03, 2011 |
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BSE pathogens can be transmitted by air
Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder. This is the surprising conclusion of researchers at the University of Zurich, the University Hospital Zurich and the University ...
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Jan 13, 2011 |
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Study suggests that early detection is possible for prion diseases
A fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists. Researchers ...
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Dec 02, 2010 |
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New discovery could aid development of elusive bovine mastitis vaccine
Researchers have discovered components of the bovine mastitis-causing bacterium, Streptococcus uberis that play a key role in the disease. This discovery could lead the way to finally developing a vaccine for this endemi ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
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Scientists find new form of prion disease that damages brain arteries
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion ...
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Mar 05, 2010 |
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