http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. 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. http://www.physorg.com/news177917282.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:28:23 EST news177917282 Avian influenza (H5N1), rabies, plague, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and more recently swine flu (H1N1) are all examples of diseases that have made the leap from animals to humans. As the list continues to grow, experts at The University of Nottingham are to lead a project aimed at developing a state-of-the-art pan-European surveillance system to monitor emerging and re-emerging infections in wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news174139758.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:30:01 EST news174139758 Very low birth-weight newborns who received the milk protein lactoferrin alone or in combination with a probiotic had a reduced incidence of late-onset sepsis, according to a study in the October 7 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news174065557.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:50:28 EST news174065557 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." http://www.physorg.com/news173359598.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:27:22 EST news173359598 A new study shows that nervous system integrity and axonal properties may play a key role in prion diseases. The findings, from researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Center and the Institute of Virology of the University of Würzburg, expand our understanding of the development of prion disease and suggest novel targets for therapeutic and diagnostic approaches in its early stages. Details are published August 21 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. http://www.physorg.com/news170079903.html Medicine & Health Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:28:20 EST news170079903 Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people. The results to date show that 14 cynomolgus macaques exposed orally or intracerebrally to CWD remain healthy and symptom free after more than six years of observation, though the direct relevance to people is not definitive and remains under study. http://www.physorg.com/news168178047.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:13:59 EST news168178047 Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time. http://www.physorg.com/news167490673.html Nanotechnology Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:11:57 EST news167490673 First results from a large tissue survey in Britain of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are unable so far to establish that the prevalence is lower than that given by previous estimates, concludes a study published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news162155020.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 20:04:40 EST news162155020 Dwindling federal funding jeopardizes important animal and biomedical research, together with the institutional research programs that focus on them, a group of Michigan State University scientists warn. http://www.physorg.com/news159715972.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:33:19 EST news159715972 Researchers report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals. http://www.physorg.com/news159715395.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:23:57 EST news159715395 Researchers at University College Cork have used bioengineering to produce a new generation of natural antibiotics that target harmful micro-organisms such as MRSA and the food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes. http://www.physorg.com/news157732966.html Biology Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:43:18 EST news157732966 Scientists at the University of Liverpool have determined the atomic structure of the 'binding' between a brain protein and an antibody that could be key to treating patients with diseases such as variant CJD. http://www.physorg.com/news155385671.html Medicine & Health Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:41:36 EST news155385671 Scientists are reporting development of the first test for instantly detecting beef that has been contaminated with tissue from a cow's brain or spinal cord during slaughter - an advance in protecting against possible spread of the human form of Mad Cow Disease. The study is scheduled for the August 13 issue of ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news137670159.html Chemistry Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:42:39 EST news137670159 In an epidemiological survey of Spain's Doņana National Park, the findings of which are published on July 23 in the journal PLoS ONE, Christian Gortázar and colleagues studied the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) infection among populations of wild boar, red deer and fallow deer in the national park, which is located in southern Spain. The researchers suggest that the results can be used to investigate bovine TB transmission dynamics between and within each species and to extrapolate the implications for spill-over to domestic cattle and wildlife management policies. http://www.physorg.com/news136010164.html Biology Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:36:04 EST news136010164