Researchers injected a particular scrapie variant into mice, producing the prion of bovine origin following genetic manipulation.
The genetically modified mice are “a very good model, which works well in terms of knowing what would happen if one exposed cows to those prions,” Olivier Andreoletti, a researcher with the French National Institute for Agronomic Research , which led up the study, told AFP. “For the first time, these data bring an experimentally underpinned explanation to the appearance” of mad cow disease in the UK in the 1980s.
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