Flesh and Stone (Free subscription) | yesterday
Under the Oct. 23 agreement between Taipei and Washington, D.C., Taiwan has again opened its markets to “in-bone” beef and beef products from the United States. Taiwan had banned U.S. beef imports in 2003 following the discovery of a U.S. case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as mad cow disease which manifests as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. In 2005 Taiwan...
bharatbook | 11/06/2009
World Neurodegenerative Diseases Market 2009-2024 Our new report - World Neurodegenerative Diseases Market 2009-2024 - Rising neurodegenerative disease prevalence and expanding patent populations - where are the best opportunities and how can you unlock these? The ageing of the baby-boom generation, combined with new and emerging treatments for neurodegenerative disorders - including multiple sclerosis,
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian Health Ministry reported on Friday a "likely" case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The Italian Health Ministry reported Friday a "likely" case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease.
A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Back from another little jaunt today. Mrs D and I played The Belfrey (PGA course on Monday and the Derby course on Tuesday morning), before heading down to Green Templeton College, Oxford, where I joined the RESEC (Research into Specialist Elderly Care) 'think tank' to discuss a new report, 'Dementia; ethical issues'. This is one of the biggest public health issues of our generation - and perhaps the...
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Prion diseases are considered to be transmissible. The existence of sporadic forms of prion diseases such as scrapie implies an environmental source for the infectious agent. This would suggest that under certain conditions the prion protein, the accepted agent of transmission, can survive in the environment. We have developed a novel technique to extract the prion protein from soil matrices. Previous...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Rodent and nonhuman primate studies are integral part of improving human healthNeuroscience researchers from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, will present a wide range of research topics at the Society for Neuroscience's 39th annual meeting in Chicago, Oct. 17-21, 2009. The information below is a representation of the neuroscience research Yerkes scientists will be discussing....
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Going Bovine is crazy in every way that is good. It is one of those books that as soon as you read the surreal plot you just have to check out. Here is the part that cinched this as a must-read for me: With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most. Going Bovine is Libba...
Neuropathology Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
If you consider yourself a blue-collar neuropathologist , a nice resource has appeared on the web for you. Henry Stewart Publications , based in London, is providing free access to a wide variety of on-line biomedical lectures in the form of the Henry Stewart Talks . One series of these talks focuses on neurodegenerative disease, which would be of particular interest to the practicing neuropathologist...
Ypulse (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Today's Author Spotlight is on Libba Bray who joins us on the blog tour for her latest novel Going Bovine. A world away from the Gemma Doyle trilogy, Libba introduces us to Cameron, a 16-year-old boy diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, aka Mad Cow Disease, and facing certain death. Or is ...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
A University of Toronto-led team of scientists says it has determined the evolutionary origin of the prion gene. The researchers said the diseased prion proteins are responsible for the fatal neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known
Life Science World (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
[NEWS] 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 known as “mad cow disease.” Diseased prion proteins are responsible for the fatal neurodegenerative Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and BSE, scrapie...
Tony's Kansas City (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
As usual . . . The Star hasn't done any real reporting and that institution is on its death bed but nobody really feels sorry for them. The passing of Tom Levitt has sent shockwaves among his many friends and associates, throughout the local Jewish Community and affected all of the folks who had an interest in building a better Kansas City. The Star buried the news on a blog that doesn't get any traffic...
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Awareness Week is November 8th-14th, 2009, CJD Aware! encourages those who have lost a loved-one to the disease to remember them that week in a special way.
Nature (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Some prion diseases have been associated with familial mutations in the gene encoding the prion protein (PrP). However, how these mutations contribute to the disease process was not well understood. Lindquist and colleagues now show for the first time that mutations in PrP can produce
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World Neurodegenerative Diseases Market 2009-2024 Our new report - World Neurodegenerative Diseases Market 2009-2024 - Rising neurodegenerative disease prevalence and expanding patent populations - where are the best opportunities and how can you unlock these? The ageing of the baby-boom generation, combined with new and emerging treatments for neurodegenerative disorders - including multiple sclerosis,
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