Thursday October 25th 2007, 7:00 am
Amorfix Life Sciences , a company focused on diagnostics and treatments for brain-wasting diseases, today announced the results from the testing of a blinded panel of blood samples from scrapie infected sheep.
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Amorfix Life Sciences’ test detects scrapie prions in blood of scrapie-infected sheep (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Mauritius: Global economy, unequal parallels (AllAfrica.com)
Thursday October 25th 2007, 5:51 am
The shortage of powdered milk has boosted up its price with a direct impact on lower classes.
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Absent prions blow hole in BSE theory (New Scientist)
Thursday October 25th 2007, 5:41 am
Abnormal prions might not be the infectious agents that cause BSE after all, prompting fears that UK testing might be missing some cases
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Premise registration continues on plan (Iowa Farmer)
Thursday October 25th 2007, 1:18 am
Editor’s note: On Nov.. 22, the Bush administration pledged not to make a planned National Animal Identification System mandatory. However, that has not derailed movement toward a voluntary tracking system.
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