Article: K-State Professor's USDA Research Shows Mad Cow Disease Also Caused by Genetic Mutation; New Test Can Detect Mutation Before Breeding Cattle.

M2 PRESSWIRE-12 September 2008-K-STATE: K-State Professor's USDA Research Shows Mad Cow Disease Also Caused by Genetic Mutation; New Test Can Detect Mutation Before Breeding Cattle(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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MANHATTAN -- New findings about the causes of mad cow disease show that sometimes it may be genetic.

"We now know it's also in the genes of cattle," said Juergen A. Richt, Regents Distinguished Professor of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.

Until several years ago, Richt said, it was thought that the cattle prion disease bovine spongiform ...

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