1. The ministry revealed that in experiments one pig had developed spongiform encephalopathy after its brain had been injected with BSE-infected tissue from a cow brain. 2. Cow brains pickling in preservative arrive in Ames by Federal Express almost daily. 3. No virus has ever been found in infected cow brains. 4. Rats and insect larvae have been replaced by cow brains and intestines. 5. That is, can a prion from a BSE-infected cow brain alter the normal human PrP protein, converting it into an agent of Creutzfeldt-Jakob? 6. The disease presumably jumped to people who ate infected cow brains. 7. The disease, thought to be caused by rogue proteins called prions, eats away at cow brains, eventually killing the cows. 8. Brown reads from one supplement label that promised half a gram of imported raw cow brain. 9. Her family told Conrad that she often handled cow brains in the Bavarian restaurant where she worked. 10. Her family told Conrad that she often handled cow brains in the restaurant where she worked. |