Bovine in Biological News

DNA blueprint for healthier and more efficient cows

... of scientists who sequenced and analysed the bovine genome, could result in more sustainable food ... from 25 countries involved in the six-year bovine Genome Sequencing Project designed to sequence, ... Dominette. The scientists discovered that the bovine genome contains 2,870 billion DNA building ...

Bovine genome provides clues to possible new developments

... Professor in the CVM and has studied the bovine genome for the past 20 years and is one of the ... detailed analyses of the two projects by the bovine Sequencing Project and the bovine Hapmap Consortia appear online at ...

Sequencing the cow's genetic code -- a new agricultural era dawns

... of a major international project to sequence the bovine (cow) genome, a female Hereford cow named L1 Dominette. Sequencing the bovine genome is now complete, paving the way for ... with less greenhouse gas emissions. "The bovine genome is more similar to that of humans than ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 6, 2008

... avoid contamination of the human food chain with bovine spongiform encephalopathy," better known as Mad ... for the presence of brain and spinal tissue in bovine carcasses and meat cuts. "Small quantities of bovine spinal cord were reliably detected in the ...

Veterinary college researchers explore function of biofilm in bovine respiratory disease

... the role biofilm plays in the development of bovine Respiratory Disease Complex (BRDC). The ... naturally occurs in a biofilm state within the bovine host. This may cause H. somni to be more ... and his colleagues are doing are not exclusive to bovine health. The study has the potential to advance ...

Research leading to tools for managing bovine respiratory disease complex

... MANHATTAN, KAN. -- bovine respiratory disease complex has multiple causes. ... certain risk factors have on the multifaceted bovine respiratory disease complex. By better ... predict which cattle are likely to get sick. But bovine respiratory disease complex has so many variables ...

Heaps of climate gas

... Academy of Science have been able to show that bovine animals can also boost the production of this ... increasingly popular. The over-wintering of bovine animals is quite widespread at least in the ... 1,000 times more than the control areas, where no bovine animals were kept. Methane oxidation is the ...

InVitria to Unveil Powerful Cell Culture Media Component ZAP-CHO

... was only possible by utilizing animal components such as FBS (fetal bovine serum), BSA (bovine serum albumin) or plasma-derived HSA (human serum ... * Cellastim —Cellastim outperforms plasma-derived albumin, bovine serum albumin and other sources of recombinant albumin. * Lacromin ...

K-State professor's USDA research shows mad cow disease also caused by genetic mutation

... years ago, Richt said, it was thought that the cattle prion disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- also called BSE or mad cow disease -- was a ... first time, that a 10-year-old cow from Alabama with an atypical form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy had the same type of prion protein gene mutation ...

Biology of Reproduction highlights

... p. 812 of the May issue of Biology of Reproduction , find that the sex of bovine embryos positively correlates with pre-ovulatory follicular testosterone. ... your next sibling to be a sister, dont aggravate your mother. Sex of bovine Embryos May Be Related to Mothers' Preovulatory Follicular Testosterone. ....

InVitria Sponsors ESACT 2009 in Dublin, Ireland

... “Previously, the performance enhancements gained with ZAP-CHO was only possible by utilizing animal components such as FBS (fetal bovine serum or fetal calf serum) in cell culture media,” said Dr. Pettit. Additionally, ZAP-CHO speeds-up cell line development and seed train ...

MIT: New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone

... when the team decided to build a scaffold for bone growth. They started with an existing method to produce a skin scaffold, made of collagen (from bovine tendon) and glycosaminoglycan, a long polysaccharide chain. To mimic the structure of bone, they developed a technique to mineralize the collagen ...

InVitria Announces Launch of Recombinant Albumin for Diagnostics

... products. InVitria’s Recombinant Albumin-DX and Recombinant Albumin-DX (Lipid-Free) perform better in diagnostics applications than both bovine serum albumin (BSA) and plasma-derived human serum albumin (pHSA).  The advantages of Recombinant Albumin-DX include: Reduce ...

Singapore scientists synthesize gold to shed light on cells' inner workings

... via a single-step reaction at body temperature (37C), the gold nanoclusters are formed with a commercially available common protein such as bovine serum albumin (BSA). "The protein holds and interacts with gold ions in aqueous solution. We are able to use this protein to provide a scaffold for ...

Redefining what it means to be a prion

... found clumped together in brain cells. Brain matter in PrP-infected animals takes on a spongy appearance, lending the condition its formal name, bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE). Unlike other proteins, the misfolded PrP protein is transmissible. When the misfolded PrP protein is introduced to ...

Magnetic nano-'shepherds' organize cells

... Bappaditya Samanta and Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts, who developed a method for coating the magnetic nanoparticles with bovine serum albumin (BSA), a protein derived from cow blood. BSA is a stable protein used in many experiments because it is biochemically inert. In these ...

Antibody key to treating variant CJD, scientists find

... animals and humans. It is thought that those who have developed vCJD became infected through the consumption of cattle products contaminated with bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) a brain disorder in cows, commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. Prion diseases can develop when a naturally ...

Human genomics in China

... biologists and chemists, protein and nucleic acid chemistry gained a rapid development. The chemical synthesis and 3D structure determination of bovine insulin and the chemical synthesis of yeast alanine-tRNA were land marker achievements recorded in the scientific history. In contrast to the ...

High blood sugar's impact on immune system holds clues to improving islet cell transplants

... triggers. For example, early exposure of a genetically predisposed child to cow's milk and a viral infection could trigger an immune response to bovine insulin which, in turn, leads to islet cell destruction. The researcher's animal model reflects the human condition fairly well; it's inbred to ...

New bacteria discovered in raw milk

... contain harmful organisms. Furthermore, farmers are not allowed to sell unpasteurised dairy products if their herd is suspected to be infected with bovine tuberculosis. "In Israel, dairy companies estimate that cold-tolerant bacteria can cause a 10% loss of milk fats and proteins. When researchers ...

American Chemical Society Weekly PressPac Oct. 15, 2008

... the approach has achieved poor results until now. In the new study, the scientists describe a new method for producing electrospun polymers using bovine serum albumin (BSA), a so-called "globular" protein found in cow's blood. BSA is similar to serum albumin, one of the most abundant proteins in the ...

Scientists find potential protein biomarkers for growth hormone

... Kopchick and Juan Ding presented a new study that pinpointed four proteins that significantly decreased or increased in the blood after exposure to bovine growth hormone, which is similar to human growth hormone. The researchers injected six 6-month-old male mice with growth hormone for seven days. ...

Stem cells offer cartilage repair hope for arthritis sufferers

... team, funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign and the Swiss AO Foundation, have identified a progenitor, or a partially derived stem cell in bovine cartilage that can be turned into can be turned into a chondrocyte in culture. Their breakthrough came in identifying a similar cell in human ...

Scripps scientists develop new tests that identify lethal prion strains quickly and accurately

... Prions (the name stands for proteinaceous infectious particles) are unique infectious pathogens associated with some 15 different diseases, including bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow) and its rare human form, variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. Infectious prions, which are thought to consist ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- Aug. 29, 2007

... the researchers said. ARTICLE #4 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nanowire-Based Delivery of Escherichia coli O157 Shiga Toxin 1 A Subunit into Human and bovine Cells DOWNLOAD PDF: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/nalefd/asap/pdf/nl071179f.pdf DOWNLOAD HTML: ...

How badger culling creates conditions for spread of bovine TB

... social structure may help control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB) among badgers, ecologists have ... badger culling as part of the strategy to control bovine TB in the UK. According to the authors from the ... major implications for future policy to control bovine TB in the UK. According to the authors: "Past ...

Completed genome set to transform the cow

... CSIRO and AgResearch New Zealand, the new bovine sequence contains 2.9 billion DNA base pairs and ... Australia's representative on the US $53 million bovine Genome Sequencing Project, CSIRO's Dr Ross ... farming." Cattle geneticists will use the bovine genome as a template to highlight genetic ...

Testes to incubate stem cells

... The research team were delighted to find abundant bovine spermatogonial stem cells thriving in the mouse ... testes. Despite the foreign surroundings, the bovine cells survived for long periods, up to three ... remarkable that mouse testes can sustain these bovine cells in culture," says Elaine Dzierzak, who ...

Cellular message movement captured on video

... These time-lapse images of a bovine aortic endothelial cell reveal the motion toward the cell's nucleus of a ... engineered proteins tagged with red and green fluorescence markers to the bovine aortic endothelial cells, grew them in tissue culture, and filmed them ...

Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined

... incorporate selected elements from several human rotavirus strains into a bovine rotavirus backbone. The vaccine that resulted takes advantage of the immunological characteristics of both the human and bovine viruses. This approach is conceptually similar to Maul's strategy for ...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

... of Illinois scholar writes. Eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... Safety vs. Promotion of Industry: Can the USDA Protect Americans From bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?" ...

Wisconsin scientists grow two new stem cell lines in animal cell-free culture

... The new work effectively removes remaining animal products such as bovine serum and replaces them with products of human origin in a recipe that is ... from mouse embryos, the original embryonic stem cell cultures depended on bovine serum products. The two new Wisconsin stem cell lines were derived from ...

Researchers learn how blood vessel cells cope with their pressure-packed job

... to the direction in which they are being pulled. However, the healthy bovine aorta endothelial cells did not behave that way in tests performed in the ... tissue in the body. The researchers isolated endothelial cells from the bovine aorta, grew the cells in culture flasks, and seeded them onto the silicone ...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

... Variant CJD, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, is the human form of bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as Mad Cow Disease. The CE ... reduce the risk of food-borne infections from consumption of contaminated bovine products. In 1999, the UK also instituted universal leukocyte reduction of ...

Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

... disease appeared in humans after several recent epidemics of bovine spongiform encephalopathy or "mad cow" disease. Since then, barriers to ... by eating is very ineffective. There have been hundreds of thousands of bovine spongiform encephalopathy cases, for example, and lots of people exposed ...

Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder

... disorders, is unsuccessful in around 25 percent of cases. A new study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, finds that adding a bovine protein called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield more effective results, with fewer of the side effects associated with common ...

Synthetic peptide targets latent papilloma virus infections

... latent viral DNA. The viral plasmids turn into infectious viruses only in the top, differentiated layers of tissue. Previous work showed that the bovine papilloma virus hitchhikes by throwing out a thumb - in actuality, a protein called E2 - that latches onto a cellular protein that, in turn, attaches ...

Swell gel could bring relief to back pain sufferers

... the body - due to absorption of water by the particles. During their investigations, the research team injected the material into a damaged bovine intervertebral disc and increased the pH to biological levels by injecting an alkaline solution. Professor Freemont, who works in the Division ...

Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease

... showed clinical symptoms. The scientists say that they detected prions--the infectious proteins responsible for such brain-destroying disorders as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and vCJD in humans--in the blood of the hamsters in as few as 20 days after the animals had been infected. ...