Super-buff cattle may hold key to treating muscular diseases
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When John Knopf walks into a meeting and wants to blow people's minds, he just pulls out a picture of a cow.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, research suggests.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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A DAIRY beef integration seminar will be held at Wendonside this month focusing on increasing profits by using beef genetics over dairy herds.
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Livestock herds are becoming million-dollar pharmaceutical incubators. Your next prescription may come from a chicken or a goat. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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American scientists have claimed that an enzyme present in almost all animal and human cells can be used for the treatment of inflammatory diseases.
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Rogue proteins that behave like those linked to vCJD and Alzheimer's can give yeast a survival advantage.
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Scientists in Dundee find a potential link between a chicken gene and human diseases.
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Scientists say a defect in a key protein may cause the muscle-wasting disease muscular dystrophy.
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Genetically modified fish may one day be used to produce human proteins to treat illnesses such as lung disease, liver problems and even some cancers.
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The agent that transmits mad cow and related diseases may spread further in the body of an animal suffering from certain illnesses, scientists said on Thursday.
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Here&#39;s a news item on the discovery of a possible second case of mad cow disease in US cattle herds. If you find this article interesting, be sure to also read &#39;Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government.
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A therapy using embryonic stem cells  helped restore muscle function in mice with Duchenne muscular  dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in  children, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
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A gene therapy trial starts which scientists hope will extend the lives of patients with muscular dystrophy.
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Shark liver oil shows promise in treatment of age-related macular degeneration.
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A British man suffering from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, is no longer terminally ill thanks to an experimental medical treatment, his father says.