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Science 1 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5497, p. 1671
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5497.1671a
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MAD COW DISEASE:
New Recruits for French Prion Research

Barbara Casassus

PARIS--As panic over "mad cow disease" engulfs France and threatens to spread to other countries in Western Europe, French research minister Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg last week unveiled detailed plans for spending $27 million the government has earmarked for prion disease research in 2001. Next year's budget for studying prions--infectious, abnormal proteins linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its human form, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--will triple France's current prion research spending.

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