Live animal testing for BSE moves a step closer
Researchers at a German University are claiming a scientific breakthrough that could see the first practical test for detecting BSE in live animals becoming commercially available within the next two years.
In an interview with German TV earlier this week, Professor Bertram Brenig, the Director of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine with the Georg August University in Goettingen said his team had been developing the blood serum-based test for the past year. Working in collaboration with a US-based biomedical company, Chronix Biomedical, the team had established a direct link between the incidence of BSE and an abnormality the nuclein acids present in the animal’s blood serum, the professor said, paving the way to the testing of individual animals.
