Can people contract neurodegenerative disease by eating beef products contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Experiments with transgenic mice give cause to think that the answer may be 'no'.
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Hope, J. Mice and beef and brain diseases. Nature 378, 761–762 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/378761a0
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