Engineered cows resist mad cow disease (News Interactive) US and Japanese scientists reported today that they had used genetic engineering to produce cattle that resist mad cow disease. [News Source]

Gene-engineered cows resist mad cow disease -study (Reuters via Yahoo! News) U.S. and Japanese scientists reported on Sunday that they had used genetic engineering to produce cattle that resist mad cow disease. [News Source]

Experts create BSE-immune cattle (The Scotsman) SCIENTISTS have genetically engineered the first cattle in the world that cannot get mad cow disease, it was revealed yesterday. [News Source]

Scientists Announce Mad Cow Breakthrough (Washington Post) Scientists said yesterday that they have used genetic engineering techniques to produce the first cattle that may be biologically incapable of getting mad cow disease. [News Source]

Michael Huffington: My New Year’s Resolution (HuffingtonPost) My New Year's resolution is to eat a vegan diet whenever I have the opportunity to do so. This may not seem like a big deal to some. To many, it may sound radical. I remember when my sister told me that she was a vegetarian in college: I thought that she was bizarre. After all, we came from a family of steak eaters. My great uncle owned a cattle ranch and six grocery stores where he sold some ... [News Source]

GM cows could protect beef-eaters from the risk of vCJD (Times Online) Cattle lacking the prion protein, which malfunctions to cause "mad cow" disease, have been created by scientists in an experiment that suggests that animals can be genetically modified to be resistant to the devastating brain condition.... [News Source]

S. KOREA, U.S. TO HOLD TALKS ON BEEF IMPORTS NEXT YEAR (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Regulations / Law South Korea and the United States are likely to hold talks early in 2007 to discuss the recent rejections of U.S. beef shipments, South Korean officials said Sunday. [News Source]

Removing Gene for Mad-Cow Disease May Breed Healthier Cattle (Bloomberg.com) Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Cattle can be genetically altered to lack the protein that causes mad-cow disease without adverse health effects, a study suggests. [News Source]

First Prion-Free Cows Reported in Nature Biotechnology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. & TOKYO----Hematech, Inc and Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd, announced today, in a report published in Nature Biotechnology, the production of healthy prion protein-knockout cows. [News Source]

Another look at investment options for kids (Chicago Tribune) With a couple more days left of the winter school break, and parents scrounging for ideas to keep children from bouncing off the walls, you might want to provide a lesson in investing. [News Source]