Article: Premortum test for mad cow disease under development.

2004 FEB 9 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Q-RNA, Inc., has recently validated its disease detection technologies for use with prion diseases such as scrapie in sheep and chronic wasting disease in elk and expects to apply its proprietary technology for the development of a new blood-based test for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease.

Current mad cow testing technologies require that animals be slaughtered for tissue-based testing to take place. Q-RNA's technologies would potentially make it possible to test larger numbers of animals prior to the onset of symptoms by testing the blood of live animals, thereby eliminating the needless ...

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