Anwar Ibrahim: UMNO dapat penyakit “mad-cow” sejak 9 Januari! Filled under: Uncategorized | You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. [News Source]

Prions enter stealth mode in the spleen, causing silent infections | Not Exactly Rocket Science There’s something unfeasibly sinister about prions. These infectious entities are incredibly simple, but they can cause fatal and untreatable diseases like mad cow disease, CJD, and others. Prions are malformed versions of a protein called PrP. Like all other proteins, they’re made of chains of amino acids that fold into complex shapes. Prions fold incorrectly, [...] [News Source]

Prions more mobile than thought. The protein-based pathogens known as prions may pass between different species more easily than has been thought, a team of French researchers reports. By infecting engineered mice with prions from cows and goats, scientists also have shown that the invaders readily target tissues other than the brain. [News Source]

Idexx Laboratories 4Q net income up 4 percent Veterinary equipment maker Idexx Laboratories Inc. said its fourth-quarter profit rose 4 percent from the same period last year and beat expectations, as sales climbed in almost all of its segments. [News Source]

Prion diseases hide out in the spleen. Prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are able to jump species much more easily than previously thought. [News Source]

'Mad Cow' and Other Prion Diseases Hide Out in Spleen By Jo Marchant of Nature magazine Prion diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are able to jump species much more easily than previously thought. [More] [News Source]

Beetle threat concerns head of maple syrup producers. Ray Bonenberg says he lays awake at night worrying about the Asian long-horned beetle. He's not the only one worried. Gord Miller, Ontario's environmental commissioner, issued a warning earlier this month that the province's maple trees are at risk from bugs moving north from the U.S. within 10 years. [News Source]

Record U.S. Beef Sales Seen as Japan Reviews Curbs: Commodities U.S. farmers, poised to ship record beef cargoes for a second straight year, may get a further boost as Japan, once their biggest overseas customer, considers easing trade curbs imposed after an outbreak of mad cow disease. [News Source]

Reports cast doubt on bio-cremation process, Cloquet Council votes ‘no.’ The Cloquet City Council said a decisive "no" to allowing the bio-cremation process at local funeral homes at its Tuesday night meeting. [News Source]

US Supreme Court blocks California slaughterhouse law. The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a California law that would require euthanizing downed livestock at federally inspected slaughterhouses to keep the meat out of the nation's food system. [News Source]