The Link: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease/Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - The Manufactured Disease
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Cannibalism is a controversial topic. It is routine for particular societies to accuse "barbarians", enemies, or evil mythological figures, of cannibalism. When it comes to the archaeological record some skeptics have claimed that like "sacred objects" too often human remains found in peculiar circumstances are ascribed to human sacrifice or cannibalism. In Did Adam and Eve Have...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.
Jesus' General (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
If you know Libba Bray from her Gemma Doyle trilogy , you may be in for a surprise here. Going Bovine (Delacourte, $17.99) 16 year old Cameron just wants to get out of high school, with as little effort as possible. When he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, even that is out. Once regarded as a loser, now his classmates are eager to show their love and support at a Student Rally. As he lies...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New research funded mainly through the Wellcome Trust with additional support from the Medical Research Council shows that a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer. The research carried out by scientists at the University of Leeds was published today (November 20) in PLoS Pathogens.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) could be a step closer based on new results from scientists at the University of Leeds. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE. Details are published November 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Times of London: "Brain-eating tribe enriches understanding of mad cow disease."
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität München have now succeeded in elucidating another disease mechanism of prion diseases: The prion-infected cell changes its gene expression and produces increased...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob disease could be a step closer based on new results from scientists in the UK. The team has found that a protein called Glypican-1 plays a key role in the development of BSE.
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Darwinian natural selection could help halt human “mad cow disease”, experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Darwinian natural selection could help halt human "mad cow disease", experts say after finding a tribe impervious to a related fatal brain disorder.
English Russia (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
With all that hype of swine flu going around these days there are big chances that sooner or later more pig farms would look like this abandoned Swine City Grande from USSR where they had thousands of thousands of piglets belonging to the glorious state and then all was left unused. The hysteria itself hasn't reached its peak as it was with mad cow disease one when they burned down millions of cow...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Philippine agriculture department has lifted the temporary ban on meat and bone meal imports from the U.S. as global health authorities has certified that incidence of mad cow disease in this country has been controlled. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap said Tuesday that the World Animal Health Organization or the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) has adopted a resolution recognizing...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Taipei - Thousands of Taiwanese Saturday marched in the capital Taipei to protest against the end of a six-year ban on the import of some types of US beef products- which they fear could spread the deadly mad cow disease. No toxic US beef, shouted ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Taipei - Thousands of Taiwanese Saturday marched in the capital Taipei to protest against the end of a six-year ban on the import of some types of US beef products- which they fear could spread the deadly mad cow disease. No toxic US beef, shouted ...
IOL (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Thousands of people marched on the Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou's office Saturday to protest against the lifting a ban on US beef ban that has triggered fears of mad cow disease fears.
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