Genetic Variation May Help Some Resist Human Form of Mad Cow Disease
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Some people have a genetic variation that may help them resist the human form of mad cow disease, a study in mice suggests.
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Blood transfusions can save lives. But they can also spread diseases. Researchers believe this is how at least two people in Britain became infected with the human version of mad cow disease. They say the cases appears to confirm that ...
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A SECOND CASE OF BSE, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MAD COW DISEASE, HASN&#39;T BEEN CERTIFIED YET HERE IN THE US. THE US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SAYS A RAPID SCREENING TEST ON A COW IN AN UNDISCLOSED STATE IS INCONCLUSIVE.
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A study of population groups has uncovered a gene variant that increases insulin resistance, thereby increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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Doctors have long known that certain variations of genes boost the risk of breast cancer, but a new study says there is also a gene variant that offers modest protection against the disease.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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UK scientists are upwardly revising their estimates of the number of people likely to die from new variant CJD (vCJD, also known as mad cow disease). It follows the death of a second patient, who contracted the disease after a ...
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Japan confirmed Friday its first case of  the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man  believed to have contracted the fatal brain-wasting illness  from eating infected beef in Britain.
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This article by Diane Farsetta takes a closer look at why the USDA bans independent testing for mad cow disease. When one beef producer wanted to test its own products in order to meet international safety
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Paris - Researchers said on Thursday they had pinpointed gene variations that could explain why some people are more vulnerable to HIV than others, a finding which could also boost the quest for an Aids vaccine.
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For American parents looking for donor sperm to produce blond, blue-eyed Scandinavian babies, the search just got a little trickier. A ban on sperm from all European countries with exposure to mad cow disease means U.S. sperm banks are running low.
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NEW YORK  - A number of brain diseases caused by mutant prion proteins, such as mad cow disease or scrapie in sheep, might be averted if normal prion proteins can be depleted, researchers report.
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Experts say patients given blood contaminated with the human form of mad cow disease face substantial risk.
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Patients with hemophilia and other blood-clotting disorders face an uncertain though probably very low risk of contracting the human form of mad cow disease from medicines made using donated plasma, health officials said Monday.
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The human version of mad cow disease may look different in different people, depending on their genetic make-up, experts reported
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Government scientists are chasing a possible new case of mad cow disease in the United States, with final results on a suspicious slaughtered animal expected
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A gene that helps to stave off the effects of multiple sclerosis has been discovered by scientists.