Episode 151For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining ...

A suspected case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in a goat slaughtered in France in 2002 has been confirmed by a panel of European scientists. The European Commission has proposed to step up ...

Comprehensive tests are needed following the confirmation that a goat in France did indeed die of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), the European Food Safety Authority’s BIOHAZ panel has said. It ...

Mad cow disease has been found in a goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged European cattle herds and killed at least 100 people has been diagnosed in another animal, the EU ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or prion disease is triggered by the conversion from cellular prion protein to pathogenic prion protein. Notably, C-transmembrane form of prion protein and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals. The finding, in mice, is ...