Health
Comfy Cow recalls ice cream due to possible E. coli
A Kentucky-based ice cream chain says it has recalled some of its most popular flavors due to possible E. coli contamination.
Aug 8, 2017
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Pre-clinical study suggests Parkinson's could start in gut endocrine cells
Recent research on Parkinson's disease has focused on the gut-brain connection, examining patients' gut bacteria, and even how severing the vagus nerve connecting the stomach and brain might protect some people from the debilitating ...
Jun 15, 2017
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Pediatrics
Drinking non-cow's milk associated with lower height in children
Children who drink non-cow's milk—including other animal milk and plant-based milk beverages—are shorter than children who drink cow's milk, new research suggests.
Jun 7, 2017
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Immunology
Overcoming immune suppression to fight against bovine leukemia
Bovine leukemia is a systemic, malignant lymphosarcoma in cows which is mainly caused by infection with a retrovirus, bovine leukemia virus (BLV). In 2016, 3,125 cases of bovine leukemia were reported in Japan, which was ...
Jun 7, 2017
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Health
New review article suggests sheep milk may be the next functional dairy food
A paper published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety explored the physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of sheep milk and development of sheep milk dairy products containing prebiotics and/or ...
Jan 24, 2017
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Medical research
In a first-of-its-kind discovery, bacteria found to form potentially infective prions
Nerve-damaging protein particles called prions have long been known to exist in mammals.
Jan 16, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Why we need to keep an eye on whether a blood infection in cattle is linked to breast cancer in humans
Humans began domesticating animals for food over 10,000 years ago, cultivating a close relationship with animals over the following millennia. Like humans, animals can get sick, and sometimes infections pass between humans ...
Jan 11, 2017
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Medical research
Research could lead to blood test to detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
The detection of prions in the blood of patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease could lead to a noninvasive diagnosis prior to symptoms and a way to identify prion contamination of the donated blood supply, according ...
Dec 21, 2016
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
Untangling fibril formation and dissociation in Parkinson's disease
Prions are misfolded proteins. The complex three-dimensional structure of a prion's progenitor protein becomes altered, somehow causing it to malfunction. Worse, the malformation of these progenitor proteins into prions causes ...
Nov 30, 2016
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Medical research
Newly discovered infectious prion structure shines light on mad cow disease
Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of "mad cow disease" or BSE, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...
Sep 8, 2016
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