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New approach to BSE successful in lab

...el Prize for Medicine. Scrapie is a variant of the cattle disease BSE and the human equivalent Creutzfeld-Ja...mal breeding: in principle it can be used to breed cattle which cannot produce any PrP-C. They would then be resistant to BSE. ...

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...rs who concerned about the possible risk to nearby cattle from Brucellosis-infected bison. An inter-agency partnership has developed a management plan to address this issue, requiring Yellowstone officials to move the animals off of private property, back onto public land, and sometimes capturing bison ...

Prion disease treatable if caught early

...feldt-Jakob disease believed to be contracted from cattle with "mad cow disease"—is caused by aberrant, infective proteins. It has been thought that the disease is untreatable. However, in previous studies with prion-infected mice, Mallucci and colleagues found that early brain degeneration can be revers...

Cancer that colonizes our bodies

...n a new light." After growing up on a wheat and cattle ranch in Oregon, von Borstel was drafted into the U.S. Navy as a seaman first-class in 1944. Following the Second World War, he pursued his university education in the United States and joined Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1953, where ...

New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

...n a new light." After growing up on a wheat and cattle ranch in Oregon, von Borstel was drafted into the U.S. Navy as a seaman first-class in 1944. Following the Second World War, he pursued his university education in the United States and joined Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1953, where ...

How badger culling creates conditions for spread of bovine TB

...r the control of TB in badgers and transmission to cattle will require serious consideration of the likely impact of any interventions on badger social organization," the authors say. ...

Cambodian vulture nests offer hope for species

... to Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug used for cattle that is highly toxic to vultures. Diclofenac has lead to global population declines as high as 99 percent in slender-billed and other vulture species. Diclofenac is now being slowly phased out in South Asia, but not at a pace that assures the recove...

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