Advance in Detecting Mad Cow Disease (RedNova) Researchers at the University of Texas in Galveston have come up with a discovery that is expected to speed development of a blood test for mad cow disease. [News Source]

Advance in detecting mad cow disease (UPI) GALVESTON, Texas, July 7 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Texas in Galveston have come up with a discovery that is expected to speed development of a blood test for mad cow disease. [News Source]

UTMB spins off firm to develop mad cow test (KHOU) A breakthrough by a local research team could illuminate one of medicine's darkest secrets by exposing how many people could unknowingly be infected with the human form of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Canada cows complicate US, Seoul beef trade. South Korea has told the Bush administration it will not resume beef trade until U.S. slaughterhouses segregate Canadian beef products. [News Source]

Brain-wasting proteins may affect heart. Mice infected with the agent of scrapie -- a brain-wasting disease of sheep -- suffered heart damage and had high levels of the scrapie agent in their heart about two years after they were infected in the brain. [News Source]

CJD blood test ‘a step closer.’ A blood test to detect the human form of mad cow disease before it causes symptoms is a step closer, say experts. [News Source]

Studies suggest blood test possible for mad cow. Tests in hamsters suggest it may be possible to develop a blood test for mad cow and related diseases in both humans and animals before they develop symptoms. [News Source]

Blood Test For Mad-Cow Disease May Be Possible (CattleNetwork.com) WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Scientists believe they are closer to creating a blood test to diagnose mad-cow disease before symptoms manifest in cattle, according to a study to be published in the journal Science. [News Source]

Prion Find Points Way To Test For Human ‘Mad Cow’ Disease (Science Daily) In the July 7, 2006, issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) describe experiments that may soon lead to a test that will enable medical science to estimate how many people are infected with the human form of mad cow disease, which can take as long as 40 years before manifesting itself. [News Source]

Some ranchers shy on first day since mad cow announcement (AG Weekly) TULIA, Texas -- West Texas rancher Kevin Crooks lost about $1 million in the year following the country's first case of mad cow 18 months ago. If he'd had cattle big enough to sell at the Tulia Livestock Auction on Monday, he wouldn't have brought a one. [News Source]