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Nature 423, 118-119 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423118a
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Postdoctoral Research in Functional Genomics
- Harvard School of Public Health, computer science, biology, bioinformatics,
- Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Fellow - Computational Genomics - Team 78 – Ref: 80464
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1, UK
Crossing the species barrier
Richard E. Race1
BOOK REVIEWED-How the Cows Turned Mad
by Maxime Schwartz
transl. Edward Schneider
University of California Press: 2003. 238 pp. $24.95, £17.95
Until 1996, the diseases of animals known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or 'mad cow disease'), were regarded as agricultural problems with no known medical implications for humans. But then it became apparent that BSE had done what no other animal TSE had done before: transmit to humans.
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