Prion Fingerprints Detected With Glowing Molecule (Science Daily) An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched. Mad cow disease (BSE), which has caused the death of more than 200,000 cattle and 165 people in the U.K., has now abated. But other prion disorders are on the rise, and there is concern that new strains will infect humans. [News Source]

New method for detecting and characterizing prions (News-Medical-Net) An effective and sensitive new method for detecting and characterizing prions, the infectious compounds behind diseases like mad cow disease, is now being launched by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden, among other institutions. [News Source]

High-flying loonie threat to ranchers (Cochrane Times) The soaring Canadian dollar may be the worst thing for the Alberta beef industry since mad cow disease, according to some producers. [News Source]

Older Canadian cattle start to come across border (Rapid City Journal) Older cattle from Canada began moving across the border into the United States on Monday, despite last-minute court appeals by some U.S. cattle groups and ranchers concerned about mad cow disease in Canada. [News Source]

Older Canadian cattle start to come across border (Rapid City Journal) Older cattle from Canada began moving across the border into the United States on Monday, despite last-minute court appeals by some U.S. cattle groups and ranchers concerned about mad cow disease in Canada. [News Source]

Japan reiterates stance on U.S. beef (Japan Today) TOKYO — Japanese senior farm vice minister Masahiro Imamura said Tuesday Tokyo cannot unconditionally meet Washington's demand to lift all its mad cow disease-linked controls on U.S. beef imports when he met in Rome with U.S. acting Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner, a Japanese farm ministry official said Wednesday. [News Source]