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Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]
The stated mission of The Jackson Laboratory is "to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human diseases, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community." [6] The laboratory also provides more than 13,000 strains of mouse models to more than 2,400 organizations in 68 countries around the world. [1]
Bruno Adolphus Olshausen is an American neuroscientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his work on computational neuroscience, vision science, and sparse coding.
Skull of a red deer. The red deer is the fourth-largest extant deer species, behind the moose, elk, and sambar deer.It is a ruminant, eating its food in two stages and having an even number of toes on each hoof, like camels, goats, and cattle.
A deer (pl.: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose).
Lumír Krejčí (born 30 March 1972 in Slavičín) is a Czech biochemist.His research is focused on regulatory processes involved in maintaining genome integrity. Currently, as Associate Professor in biochemistry, he leads the laboratory of recombination and DNA repair (LORD) at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, at Masaryk Universi
The Department of Justice is continuing its push to release the remaining volume of special counsel Jack Smith's final report to select members of Congress. In an overnight court filing, Justice ...
The Barbary stag (Cervus elaphus barbarus), also known as the Atlas deer or African elk, is a subspecies of the red deer that is native to North Africa. It is the only deer known to be native to Africa, aside from Megaceroides algericus , which went extinct approximately 6,000 years ago.