Sentences with phrase «including mad cow»

And while kuru is of course a singular condition, its cousins — including mad cow and scrapie — are the stuff of everyday Western life, and it was for this discovery that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

Though public health is not at issue now, government oversight is, and the latest developments have echoes of earlier European food safety crises, including mad cow disease in Britain and dioxin in eggs and poultry in Belgium.

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

FFI belongs to a class of infectious prion diseases that include Mad Cow Disease.

In prion diseases, which include mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a normal cell protein, PrP, assumes an abnormal shape.

Not exact matches

That even includes the learned rev the mad cow loving one from across the pond.

Sears has also said that some vaccines contain risky ingredients, including bovine serum that could carry mad cow disease, and the dreaded aluminum.

Paladino's answers to the wishlist included Barack Obama catching mad cow disease and Michelle Obama» [returning] to being a male and [letting] loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.»

By the time Artvoice published last week the comments Paladino made in a year end survey — saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Barack Obama and wanted First Lady Michelle Obama to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» — the developer was already on a national stage poised for scrutiny from some of the country's largest media outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN.

Pierce and Quinn both made clear they disapproved of the comments, which included wishing the president would die of mad cow disease and the first lady would «return to being a male and 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.

In his replies, Paladino makes remarks about President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama, including saying he hopes the president dies from mad cow disease.

Paladino's «wishes» included the death of President Barack Obama by mad cow disease and for the transformation of First Lady Michelle Obama into a male who would then live with a gorilla in Africa.

The remarks, which were part of a series of «wish lists» submitted by local personalities, included the wish that Barack Obama «die of mad cow disease» and for Michelle Obama to «return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie the gorilla.»

In addition to chronic wasting disease, examples include scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or «mad cow disease») in animals and variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

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.

Other prion diseases include scrapie in sheep; chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in cattle.

Her research focuses on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a class of brain diseases that includes «mad cow disease» and that can be transmitted by injecting or ingesting infectious tissue.

The propensity of proteins to stick together in large clumps — termed «protein aggregation» — is the culprit behind a variety of conditions including Huntington's, Alzheimer's, and mad cow diseases.

The researchers then exposed these transgenic mice to prion isolates collected from sick animals, including classical and atypical strains of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (i.e., mad cow disease), sheep Scrapie, and deer Chronic Wasting Disease.

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.

The most well - known prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (often called «mad cow disease») and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans.

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.

These include MERS, Ebola, anthrax, bubonic plague, and mad cow disease.

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.

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 related topics, including the latest news on Mad Cow Disease, Foot and Mouth Disease, and many others.

Many people including scientists and myself, believe that mad cow disease greatly exists now in the US animal agriculture and the evidence is being hidden because of greed, profit and power (and it will keep spreading).

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.

Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone is presented at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, in a revised iteration that includes theseus warcraft virocannibal diabla (sterna) 333, a newly commissioned work by Jennifer Mehigan that compositions various scales of visual references including: the Drombeg stone circle, various bacteria found inside a human gut, the inside of a cow belly, and the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy virus (mad cow disease).

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»