Brain-Eating Tribe Enriches Understanding of Mad Cow Disease (Fox News) A cannibalistic ritual in which the brains of dead tribes people were eaten by their relatives has triggered one of the most striking examples of rapid human evolution on record, scientists have discovered. [News Source]

The Protein Srebp2 Drives Cholesterol Formation In Prion-Infected Neuronal Cells Which May Promote Prion-Dependent … (Medical News Today) Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. [News Source]

Braineating tribe could help find treatment for mad cow disease (Daily Telegraph) Cannibals provide example that could help find a treatment. [News Source]