Sentences with phrase «as mad cow»

They now cover environmental matters, including pollutants both inside the home and out, as well as recent hot - button topics, such as Mad Cow disease, Lyme disease, and the West Nile virus.

The USDA maintains this website with information on a variety of animal health related topics, including the latest news on such things as Mad Cow Diseases, foot and mouth disease, and many other things.

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service The USDA maintains this website with information on a variety of animal health related topics, including the latest news on such things as Mad Cow Diseases, foot and mouth disease, and many other things.

While the shortage of rural veterinarians may cause animal owners to wait longer for care, Dr. Major said he's concerned about what would happen if there was an outbreak of a serious animal - borne illness such as mad cow or foot and mouth disease.

Prions are like a more basic version of a virus, which has led to the outbreak of what you might know as mad cow disease.

Organically fed livestock also reduces the risk of conditions such as mad cow disease, which occurs when animals consume meat and bone meal from infected animals.

Although prions are infamous for causing Creutzfeld - Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow's disease, the present study indicates that prions identified in yeast, and possibly in plants, and other organisms may be beneficial.

What's more, at the center of this process is a prion, a protein that changes shape in a self - perpetuating way — much like the prion in mammals that is responsible for certain neurological conditions such as Mad Cow disease.

Researchers suspect that diseases such as Mad Cow, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's result from proteins that fold improperly and get tangled together, thereby gumming up the brain.

The other, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), better known as mad cow disease, appeared near Ashford, England, in November 1986 and subsequently devastated the British beef and dairy industries.

Not exact matches

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

Luckily for the rest of the world the majority of US citizens are educated enough to realise they are being flooded by big - business - led propaganda such as Fox news and CNN who don't know the difference between Foot and Mouth disease and Mad Cow disease!

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

Paladino, the 2010 Republican candidate for governor who served as honorary co-chairman of Trump's 2016 campaign in New York, has received international condemnation after he told the alternative newspaper Artvoice that he wished President Obama would die of mad cow disease and suggested Michelle Obama live with a gorilla.

The majority of the Buffalo Board of Education would like to be rid of member Carl Paladino, who, in addition to acting as the New York chair of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, recently told a local newspaper that, among other things, he'd like to see President Obama catch «mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford,» while Michelle Obama «[returns] to being a male and [is] let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.»

Paladino said his wishes for 2017 included having President Obama die of mad cow disease and having First Lady Michelle Obamna return to Africa to live as a man, with a gorilla.

The drive to remove Paladino from the school board comes after he told the alternative newspaper Artvoice that as part of his wishes for 2017 he wanted to see President Obama dead of mad cow disease and First Lady Michelle Obama living with a gorilla in Africa.

But Vacco countered saying, as he has before, this is all a pretext after remarks Paladino made to Artvoice at the end of the year, saying that his wish for 2017 was to have then President Obama die of mad cow disease and have his wife Michelle return to Africa to live with a Gorilla

Protein misfolding and aggregation had been identified as a major factor in mad cow disease, and research using yeasts as model organisms played a large role in those findings.

The disease is part of a group known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which includes mad cow and a few other rare diseases.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

They found that although the protein stayed soluble for a week or two, it eventually polymerized into long fibers resembling those in so - called prion diseases — brain diseases such as scrapie in sheep, «mad cow disease» in cattle, and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

It could, however, potentially carry other pathogens that might be transmitted to humans, such as the protein that causes mad cow disease.

The structures, called amyloid fibrils, are also implicated in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and in prion diseases like Creutzfeldt - Jacob and mad cow disease.

Worse, AS appears to act like a prion disease (for example, variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob or «mad cow»).

The remote possibility that I might develop mad cow disease as a result has never stopped me from diving into a nice juicy hamburger (preferably with a generous helping of ketchup and relish).

Two new strains of mad cow disease, the brain - destroying killer linked to rogue proteins known as prions, turned up this year in Europe.

Some of the issues that spurred the collaboration include health concerns such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease) and environmental problems in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas.

Synthetic, protein - only prions can cause a mad cow — like disease in mice, as can brain tissue from these mice, demonstrating that misfolded proteins are the infectious agents in prion disease.

An innovative new technique could finally lead to an early diagnostic test for diseases such as Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis (BSE), or «mad cow», and its human counterpart, variant Creutzfeldt - Jacob Disease (vCJD).

The deformed or misfolded protein might then spread via the nervous system to the brain as a prion, or infectious protein, in similar fashion to mad cow disease.

Infamous for causing fatal degenerative brain diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, known more commonly as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, and scrapie, prions are proteins that have the ability to self - perpetuate when they assume a particular conformation.

Scientists have located two possible receptors for the so - called prion protein (PrP) believed to be at fault in fatal neurological conditions such as «mad cow disease,» Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, and scrapie in sheep.

Prions, the infectious agents best known for causing degenerative brain disorders such as «mad cow» disease, may have been spotted in bacteria.

Five of London Zoo's greater kudus — a type of African antelope — have now been diagnosed as having BSE, the «mad cow disease» that has become epidemic in Britain.

Although endemic in Europe for centuries, the sheep disease known as scrapie achieved notoriety only during the 1980s, when it was apparently transmitted to cows in Britain via infected sheep remains in cattle feed, thereby causing mad cow disease.

It cause animal brains to turn into a spongy mess in scrapie, a disease of sheep, and in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or «mad cow disease»), as well as in human prion diseases such as CJD.

The government's caution is widely perceived as a reaction to a furious backlash from the public against genetically modified foods and crops, and public suspicion of experts and government in the wake of the crisis over BSE, or «mad cow disease.»

The same protein that causes neurodegenerative conditions such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is also important for helping certain adult stem cells maintain themselves.

«This gives us insight as to why some prions can't cross the species barrier while others can — as they have with mad cows and humans.,» says Lindquist.

Like mad cow disease, CWD is caused by an infectious agent known as a prion.

August 2, 1996 Protein particles similar to those suspected in «mad cow» disease found in yeast cells Researchers at the University of Chicago's Howard Hughes Medical Institute have shown that a defective cell trait can be propagated by a faulty protein, without any DNA or RNA serving as the genetic blueprint.

Amyloid fibers are best known as the plaque that gunks up neurons in people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease — the human analog of mad cow disease.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (June 8, 2005)-- Amyloid fibers are best known as the plaque that gunks up neurons in people with neurodegenerative illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt - Jacob disease — the human analog of mad cow disease.

Prusiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for discovering that the neurodegenerative diseases known as spongiform encephalopathies, which include «mad cow disease,» are caused by an infectious form of a protein that exists in all mammals and birds examined, including humans.

However, age - dependent neurodegeneration is very prevalent, as many diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), and prion diseases (that cause «mad cow» disease), are diseases of neuronal death.

One form, called variant CJD (vCJD), is associated with eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as «mad cow» disease.

As grisly as the practice was, cannibalism also took a hidden toll on those who hunted and consumed their own species: a fatal epidemic similar to mad cow disease that caused severe mental impairments and wiped out thousandAs grisly as the practice was, cannibalism also took a hidden toll on those who hunted and consumed their own species: a fatal epidemic similar to mad cow disease that caused severe mental impairments and wiped out thousandas the practice was, cannibalism also took a hidden toll on those who hunted and consumed their own species: a fatal epidemic similar to mad cow disease that caused severe mental impairments and wiped out thousands.

The new finding offers direct, physical evidence supporting protein - based inheritance, thus strengthening the «prion hypothesis» of the cause of neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, such as sheep scrapie, mad cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the kuru disease of the Papua New Guinea tribes.