New Approach To Mad Cow Disease Successful In Lab: Prion-infected Mice Survive Longer (Science Daily) A new method of treatment can appreciably slow down the progress of the fatal brain disease scrapie in mice. This has been established by German researchers from the Universities of Munich and Bonn together with their colleagues at the Max Planck Institute in Martinsried. They used an effect discovered by the US researchers Craig Mello and Andrew Fire, for which they were awarded this year's [News Source]

GM corn to be destroyed. Biosecurity New Zealand is meeting corn growers on Monday to decide the best way of destroying 400 hectares of genetically modified corn. [News Source]

Silencing The Cause Of Mad Cow Disease (Science Daily) BSE (more commonly known as mad cow disease) and CJD, a related disease in humans, are fatal neurodegenerative diseases caused by accumulation in the brain of an abnormally folded version (PrPsc) of a natural protein (PrPc). Although there are currently no therapies for the treatment of these diseases, a new study indicates that in mice silencing the gene encoding PrPc using a technique known as [News Source]