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Stories about: prion

Human Sperm; Blonde, Blue Eyed Children and the Mad Cow Mad cow hits hard in our plans of spreading the European seed. American families that want to have the blond, blue-eyed Scandinavian toddler find it now harder to get that sperm. In May 2005, the FDA banned sperm import from any European country with cases of mad cow disease, from Denmark to the UK. Now even the best... 2 October 2007 14:06 GMT A Vaccine Against Mad Cow Disease If a virus can barely be considered a living structure (in fact most biologists consider that it's not), the threshold can be pushed further at the limit between life and death obtaining the prions, infecting proteins. As the main weapon against a virus is the vaccine, now researchers are investigating for simil... 7 May 2007 07:02 GMT