The AI effectively consumes itself, which means there are parallels for mad cow disease – a neurological ... loops," says computer engineer Richard Baraniuk, from Rice University.

Cattle that can't walk to slaughter on their own are deemed "downer cows" because they may be sick. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Sunday in a statement that the recall was prompted ...

Canada’s new Agriculture Minister is proposing several reforms to make the country’s food producers more resilient against ...

And Richard Johnson, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins who coauthored a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on prion research in the United States, said that the regulations are ...

Although no cases of mad cow disease have been found in humans or livestock in the United States, according to a Purdue expert, recent news articles have suggested that individuals have died from the ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...

30 years on, scientists and activists are still searching for answers to two big questions - where did mad cow disease originally come from and how did humans get infected? This crazy tale of ...

They still didn’t know how the disease had started but the Feed Ban did halt the spread of Mad Cow Disease, proving one thing: cow cannibalism had spread the madness. 4. It took a decade for the ...

A mad cow’s milk may contain prion proteins and the disease might be transmitted from the mad cow to humans who happen to drink its milk Mad Cow Disease, also known as Bovine Spongiform ...