Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called ...

Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, have been prominently in the news lately. The best known among this group is mad cow disease, but other animals can get other ...

Groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by ...

(Philadelphia, PA - January 16, 2003) Recent regulations by the US government regarding the classification of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "Mad Cow" prions, may greatly impede future ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning ...

Prions are best known as the infectious agents that cause ‘mad cow’ disease and the human versions of it, such as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease. But the proteins also have at least one known ...

Now basic research on prions, the infectious proteinaceous particles that cause mad cow disease and other cases of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs), has caught up with the disease. The ...

Q: What exactly is mad cow disease? A: That's the popular name for what scientists call bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. It is an incurable disease that creates holes in brain tissue, making ...

A rare case of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), has been detected at a slaughter plant in South Carolina but poses no threat to humans or other cattle. It is only ...

A cow at a South Carolina beef processing facility recently tested positive for atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly referred to as mad cow disease. It is the seventh case of mad cow ...