Modified cattle feed may prevent mad cow disease
Date: 20.5.2008
In the not-so-distant future, Dr. Nat Kav hopes to be in a greenhouse tending a special crop of plants that could inoculate **cattle** against **mad cow disease**.
Kav, an associate professor in the University of Alberta agriculture department, says the idea is to give cattle protection against **bovine spongiform encepthalopathy** by growing antibodies to the disease in plants they eat.
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