Elk imports carry great risk: wildlife group (Whitehorse Star Daily) There is a risk of deadly disease arriving in the Yukon when importing game farm elk, says the executive director of the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation. [News Source]

Ten CWD-positive deer reported by KDWP > Buckmasters > Articles (Buckmasters) -- The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks reports a total of 10 chronic wasting disease (CWD) occurrences from among almost 2,700 deer tissue samples collected and submitted for lab analysis by KDWP in recent months. [News Source]

Marking Mad Cow (GenomeWeb News) Researchers led by Lee Hood have found proteins that seem to signal the onslaught of mad cow disease , reports Technology Review . The scientists took a global approach: they infected mice with prions and followed the resulting gene expression changes in the mice brains, resulting in 30 million data points. [News Source]

Zane’s World (Santa Fe Reporter) As a bleeding heart liberal, it pains me to side with the Ron Paul-aggrandizing nut jobs who haunt internet chat rooms and fringe “news” sites, but the farm-related bills and issues currently in front of the US Congress are accidentally evil enough to pry my closet libertarian tendencies into the light. [News Source]

Canada demands South Korea accepts beef (Food Production Daily) According to Reuters, Ritz met South Korean trade and agriculture ministers that they have until the end of this month to reopen the borders to Canadian beef. [News Source]

We Are The Romans (The Wrestling News Page) Column Posted by D Ray Morton on 00:17:43 AM Mar 25, 2009 WARNING. There is no semblence of intelligent writing in this report. If you are looking for a writer with well thought out literary ideas and grammer, I suggest you go to Slam! to read a Greg Oliver article. [News Source]

God, the Recession, and First Time Buyers (Politics.ie) This is a discussion on God, the Recession, and First Time Buyers within the Chat forums, part of the General Discussion category on Politics.ie . (taken from www.rant.ie ) It has been brought to my attention by a semi-apologetic mugger that some manner of recession ... [News Source]

2 Possible Cases Of Mad Cow In Roane Co. (WSMV Nashville) State health officials said there's no reason to worry about two possible cases of a rare brain disease in Roane County. [News Source]

Systems Biology Provides First Global Analysis of Prion Disease in a Mouse Model (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SEATTLE----Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, Montana, published today in Molecular Systems Biology a ground-breaking study which modeled the progression of degenerative brain diseases, one of which is "mad cow disease," that are caused by misfolded proteins called "prions". [News Source]

Finding Early Signs of Mad-Cow Disease (Technology Review) A comprehensive study of gene-expression changes could lead to new diagnostic tests. [News Source]