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January 2008
December 2007
Clipmark: Case Western Reserve gets $27.5 million to keep studying mad cow disease
by shankargallery
just one place that tracks prions funding for 5 years, 15 years incubation period before
Case Western Reserve gets $27.5 million to keep studying mad cow disease
by shankargallery
just one place that tracks prions funding for 5 years, 15 years incubation period before
Rendering Plants Recycling of Dead Animals and Slaughterhouse Wastes
by shankargallery
more about rendering animal carcass plants
Mad cow outbreak may have been caused by animal rendering plants
by shankargallery
prions possible in watershed,see Kent UK case
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September 2007
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June 2007
Beef eaters beware -- safety may be sent packing by Courtney Haden
by shankargallery
Creekstone sued the USDA in 2006, and in the case of David v. Goliath, the little guy unaccountably won. A decision handed down by a U.S. district judge in March decreed that Creekstone must be permitted to start its own testing June 1. However, thanks to
May 2007
Clipmark: Small regions within prion proteins regulate their ability to cross species barriers
by shankargallery
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute http://www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/lindquist.html Written by David Cameron Susan Lindquist’s primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, where her la
Small regions within prion proteins regulate their ability to cross species barriers
by shankargallery
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute http://www.wi.mit.edu/research/faculty/lindquist.html Written by David Cameron Susan Lindquist’s primary affiliation is with Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research, where her la
Clipmark: Scientists Identify Prion's Infectious Secret
by shankargallery
But prions have another characteristic that enables them to wreak havoc. They recruit other, properly folded proteins into misforming along with them, a process Lindquist calls a "conformational cascade." In many organisms, this conformational cascade cre
Scientists Identify Prion's Infectious Secret
by shankargallery
But prions have another characteristic that enables them to wreak havoc. They recruit other, properly folded proteins into misforming along with them, a process Lindquist calls a "conformational cascade." In many organisms, this conformational cascade cre
April 2007
Colony Collapse Disorder Universal Prion
by shankargallery
19 Aug 99 webmaster Could a bee sting cause scrapie? Yes, indeed -- there was an apparent near miss 23.6 million years ago in a common ancestor of sheep and cow -- a retrotransposon event that might have boosted prion protein production to levels foste
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