Sentences with phrase «transmissible spongiform encephalopathies»

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

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.

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions).

Prions are the protein - based infectious agents responsible for a group of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in cattle, scrapie in sheep, variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, elk and moose.

National Animal Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, State Key Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology, Key Laboratory of Animal Epidemiology and Zoonosis, Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

Scientists first discovered prions in the 1980s as the agents behind fatal brain disorders known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

He has written extensively about nuclear history as well as many other topics in the history of science, including a 1997 book, Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague, on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

For if there was one thing Robert Klitzman knew, it was the stubborn bravado of those facing a horrific death from a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs, also known as prion diseases) are a group of progressive conditions that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals and are transmitted by prions.

CJD may also be referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, vCJD, and Jacob - Creutzfeldt disease.