Northern China is a major dairy-producing region. However, milk production is expected to decline drastically by 2050, with losses potentially up to 50% by 2070, because of heat stress in July, according to a new study.
Apr 7, 2020
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Dozens of Hindu activists held a cow urine party in the Indian capital Saturday to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, as countries around the world struggle to control the deadly pandemic.
Mar 14, 2020
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A team of researchers, led by NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Biology Mazin Magzoub, has developed small proteins called cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) that prevent the aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) protein associated ...
Feb 5, 2020
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I'm a geneticist. I study the connection between information and biology—essentially what makes a fly a fly and a human a human. Interestingly, we're not that different. I've been a professional geneticist since the early ...
Nov 20, 2019
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In recent years, neuroscientists have debated whether prion-like activity damages the brain in people with Parkinson's, but scientists in Japan, after an exhaustive analysis, report no evidence of misfolded, transmissable ...
A high degree of uncertainty surrounds the issue of the prion disease risk associated with fertility drugs derived from urine, gonadotropins. Writing in the International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, a team ...
Aug 8, 2019
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An article published in the journal PLOS Pathogens reports a realistic computational model for the structure and mechanism of replication of prions, infectious agents responsible for mad cow disease and other neurodegenerative ...
Jul 11, 2019
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Last Thursday, dairy company Lactalis Australia recalled eight varieties of milk over concerns the products could be contaminated with the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli).
Jun 24, 2019
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Infectious proteins called prions cause a group of related, fatal and incurable neurodegenerative disorders, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy or Mad Cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, both of which affect ...
Jun 11, 2019
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Every year in Catalonia 15 new cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease are diagnosed. It is a deadly prion disease whose cause is unknown and has no treatment, though it is very similar to mad cow disease, also brought on by prions ...
May 29, 2019
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