Trans-Atlantic BSE

Prions stay out

New research finds brain cell receptors that let the killer prions in

Madness again

BSE spreads to sheep

Cowed down

Tactical pressure

Can life exist sans DNA?

Stanley Prusiner, winner of the 1997 Nobel prize for medicine, devoted two decades of research to answer this question

Unfinished research

Beware of BSE

All that is bad

ends up in Africa? A suspect consignment reaches the shores of Kenya riling the natives

More mad cows?

In Short

In Court

Utterly bovine

UK researchers claim the Mad Cow disease is caused by Indian animal feed imports; India rubbishes hypothesis

A lesson unlearnt

Belgium seems to pay little heed to the UK government's handling of the madcow disease

Bad drugs

The Europian Union votes to ban four widely-used antibiotics in animal feed

Mad cow scare

Ban lifted

In Short

Battle for beef

In court

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