USDA will fight ruling on cattle test (The Record) The United States Department of Agriculture said last week that it does not support widespread testing of cattle for mad cow disease and will fight a recent court ruling that would force it to allow such tests, according to The Associated Press. [News Source]

GeneThera’s Update on Operations in Italy (RedNova) GeneThera, Inc. (OTCBB: GTHA) has developed a method to quantitate the expression of the Erythroid Differentiation-Related Factor (EDRF) gene capable of detecting the presence of Mad Cow Disease in the blood of infected animals. [News Source]

GeneThera’s Update on Operations in Italy (SYS-CON Media) GeneThera, Inc. (OTCBB: GTHA) has developeda method to quantitate the expression of the ErythroidDifferentiation-Related Factor (EDRF) gene capable of detecting thepresence of Mad Cow Disease in the blood of infected animals. The currenttesting model to diagnose Mad Cow Disease relies on postmortem testing todetect the presence of infectious prion proteins in the brain. GeneTherahas developed a ... [News Source]

GeneThera’s Update on Operations in Italy (Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance) GeneThera, Inc. has developed a method to quantitate the expression of the Erythroid Differentiation-Related Factor gene capable of detecting the presence of Mad Cow Disease in the blood of infected animals. [News Source]

Breakthrough on mad cow testing (Toronto Star) MONTREAL – A joint venture partly owned by ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: PLI ) announced Thursday it has developed a filter that improves tests to detect mad cow disease in cattle. [News Source]

Humane Society of US again scaring people away from good diets? (AG Weekly) The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. [News Source]