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The goat foetus that's immune to BSE.

Australasian Business Intelligence, March, 2006

Mar 28, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- US researchers believe they are on track to develop cattle immune to the so-called "mad- cow disease". Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) attacks proteins called prions, causing BSE in cattle and scrapie in sheep. Researchers at Texas A&M University

and Howard Hughes Medical Institute in New York have genetically modified a goat foetus to almost completely lack these prions.

Animals without prions are resistant to BSE- like diseases. Although mice had been developed with non-functioning prion genes, attempts to produce the change in larger animals had previously failed.

Publication Date: 25 March 2006 ...

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