ISU, USDA discover simple test for diseased livestock It sounds too much like a Halloween tale to be real science; diseased sheep eyeballs literally glow when exposed to a blue excitation light. The discovery, made by Iowa State University and USDA researchers, may lead to a simple, quick way to test livestock for neurological disorders, such as mad cow disease. [News Source]

ISU, USDA discover simple test for diseased livestock It sounds too much like a Halloween tale to be real science; diseased sheep eyeballs literally glow when exposed to a blue excitation light. The discovery, made by Iowa State University and USDA researchers, may lead to a simple, quick way to test livestock for neurological disorders, such as mad cow disease. [News Source]

ISU, USDA discover simple test for diseased livestock It sounds too much like a Halloween tale to be real science; diseased sheep eyeballs literally glow when exposed to a blue excitation light. The discovery, made by Iowa State University and USDA researchers, may lead to a simple, quick way to test livestock for neurological disorders, such as mad cow disease. [News Source]

ISU, USDA discover simple test for diseased livestock It sounds too much like a Halloween tale to be real science; diseased sheep eyeballs literally glow when exposed to a blue excitation light. The discovery, made by Iowa State University and USDA researchers, may lead to a simple, quick way to test livestock for neurological disorders, such as mad cow disease... [News Source]

Size Of Protein Aggregates, Not Abundance, Drives Spread Of Prion-Based Disease Mad Cow disease and its human variant Creutzfeldt—Jakob disease, which are incurable and fatal, have been on a welcome hiatus from the news for years, but because mammals remain as vulnerable as ever to infectious diseases caused by enigmatic proteins called prions, scientists have taken no respite of their own. In the Oct. 29 edition of the journal Science, researchers at Brown University ... [News Source]

Is US Beef At Risk of Mad Cow Disease Again? It's been two years since rumors of mad cows in Texas sank cattle futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange when a woman with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), human mad cow disease, was admitted to an Amarillo hospital. [News Source]

Mad Cow Theatre adult acting classes go on sale Registration is now open for Mad Cow Theatre’s winter session of adult acting classes. Read on for the details: Acting Essentials for Adults No prerequisite For the beginning or re-entering experienced actor What: Explore and study the craft of acting through in-depth and supportive classwork including theater games, awareness and sensitivity exercises, monologues and scene work. Limited [...] [News Source]

Size of protein aggregates, not abundance, drives spread of prion-based disease Mad Cow disease and its human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which are incurable and fatal, have been on a welcome hiatus from the news for years, but because mammals remain as vulnerable as ever to infectious diseases caused by enigmatic proteins called prions, scientists have taken no respite of their own. In the Oct. 29 edition of the journal Science, researchers at Brown University ... [News Source]

Beware Mad Cow Disease Pack up your weed and blind devotion to the only band that you and your frat-boy brother can agree on, we're going to the U.K. It was revealed this morning that Animal Collective will curate 2011's All Tomorrow's Parties festival. [News Source]

Experts voice concern over safety of imported meat. Ahead of the approaching Kurban Bayramı holiday, discussions about red meat imports and the safety of imported meat have reignited, with experts expressing concern. [News Source]