News tagged with cow disease
US issues guidelines to avoid heparin contamination
Four years after US drug-maker Baxter International's blood thinner heparin was contaminated in China, causing dozens of deaths, US regulators on Friday issued draft guidelines for safe production.
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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Better than a needle in the eye: New medical device offers hope and relief for patients
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at McMaster have developed a new system for delivering drugs to the back of the eye - one that could offer more effective treatment while sparing patients with vision-related ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Focus on glaucoma origins continues path toward potential cure
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness. Nearly 4 million Americans have the disorder, which affects 70 million worldwide. There is no cure and no early symptoms. Once vision is lost, it's permanent.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Blood test for human form of mad cow disease developed
(Medical Xpress) -- Mad cow disease is serious business in the U.K., the human form, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob after Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt and Alfons Maria Jakob (CJD), who independently first described its existence ...
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Medical researchers discover hidden side of prion diseases
Medical researchers in Canada and the United States recently published their joint findings that fatal prion diseases, which include BSE or "mad cow disease," have a hidden signature.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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New method for making human-based gelatin
Scientists are reporting development of a new approach for producing large quantities of human-derived gelatin that could become a substitute for some of the 300,000 tons of animal-based gelatin produced annually for gelatin-type ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Study finds two gene classes linked to new prion formation
Unlocking the mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative prion diseases may require a genetic key, suggest new findings reported by University of Illinois at Chicago distinguished professor of biological sciences Susan Liebman.
May 26, 2011 |
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Lichens may aid in combating deadly chronic wasting disease in wildlife
Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada, according ...
May 18, 2011 |
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Coroners wrong to say no to post-mortem tissue collection, academics argue
The creation of a post-mortem tissue archive for a study of the human form of mad cow disease failed because of a "misguided" refusal by coroners to participate.
May 09, 2011 |
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Studies of mutated protein in Lou Gehrig's disease reveal new paths for drug discovery
Several genes have been linked to ALS, with one of the most recent called FUS. Two new studies in PLoS Biology, one from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the other from colleagues at Bra ...
Apr 26, 2011 |
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Sheep with scrapie found in Japan
A dead sheep infected with scrapie -- a degenerative disease of the nervous system similar to mad cow disease -- has been found in western Japan, an official said on Thursday.
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Cancer is a p53 protein aggregation disease
Protein aggregation, generally associated with Alzheimer's and mad cow disease, turns out to play a significant role in cancer. In a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology, Frederic Rousseau and Joost Schymkowitz of VIB ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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New trash-to-treasure process turns landfill nuisance into plastic
With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists today described development of a process for using that so-called meat and bone meal to ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Mad cow disease: Blood test for vCJD clears hurdle
A blood test to detect rogue prion proteins that cause the human form of mad-cow disease has performed well in an early experiment, British doctors reported in The Lancet on Thursday.
Feb 03, 2011 |
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Unfolding pathogenesis in Parkinson's
The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, reveals that damaged alpha-synuclein proteins (which are implicated in Parkinson's disease) can spread in a 'prion-like' manner, an infection model previously descri ...
Jan 19, 2011 |
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