SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Japan’s misfortunes with mad cow disease have led to a lucrative contract for a Bay Area biotech company. Hercules-based Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. makes kits that identify mad ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - When the nation's first case of mad cow disease was discovered on a Washington farm, it took the slaughter of more than 700 healthy cattle to prove the disease had not spread. That's ...

Japan’s misfortunes with “mad cow” disease have led to a lucrative contract for a Bay Area biotech company. Hercules, Calif.-based Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. makes kits that identify mad cow ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Agriculture Department, investigating a possible case of mad cow disease in an animal previously declared free of the ailment, conducted more tests only after being urged to do ...

The Agriculture Department late Tuesday received an “inconclusive” preliminary screening on a second animal indicating possible mad cow disease, but officials cautioned the test is so sensitive it ...

Thirty-eight more cattle from a Texas ranch tested negative for mad cow disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported today. The 38 animals were from the same ranch and herd as the Texas beef ...

A Dutch researcher will serve the first test tube meat burger. Dutch scientist Mark Post displays samples of in-vitro meat, or cultured meat grown in a laboratory, at the University of Maastricht in ...