{"id":536,"date":"2009-03-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-212\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:03","slug":"innovation-anthology-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/03\/19\/innovation-anthology-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #212:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 212.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nAt the present time, the only way to confirm whether cattle are suffering from<b> \u201c mad cow\u201d <\/b>disease is to test them after they are slaughtered.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, the research of<b> Dr. David Knox<\/b> and his colleagues at the <b>National Microbiology Lab <\/b>in Winnipeg may soon lead to a simple <b>urine test <\/b>for mad cow disease.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Knox presented his findings at the recent prion conference in Edmonton which was  hosted by <b>PrioNet Canada<\/b> and the<b> Alberta Ingenuity Alberta Prion Research Institute.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Dr. Knox explains, an examination of cattle urine would reveal biomarkers that indicate whether the cattle are infected, long before clinical symptoms appear.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR. DAVID KNOX: <\/b><em>We found one marker, at least in our small test set, that is able to discriminate with 100 percent accuracy between control and infected samples.  And that\u2019s a protein called cholesterin.  However, it requires further validation.  Does it  work in all BSE infected cattle, is one question.    And the other question is  do you see increased amounts in response to other types of infection as well.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. David Knox has detected the biomarker in urine as early as 8 months after infection.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Alberta Ingenuity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at Innovation Anthology.com<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\">Canadian Institutes of Health Research<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/cihr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-03-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the present time, the only way to confirm whether cattle are suffering from <b>\u201c mad cow\u201d <\/b>disease is to test them after they are slaughtered.  However, the research of Dr. David Knox and his colleagues at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg may soon lead to a simple <b>urine test<\/b> for mad cow disease.<em> (Alberta Ingenuity)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-canadian-institutes-of-health-research","category-genomics","category-health-and-medicine","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1-212david_knox.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}