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Food Safety Research Information Office: A Focus on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy |
 | | Using non-invasive technology, identify in viva diagnostic and prion disease progression markers using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in humans and animal models. |
| | Improve and validate an existing fluorescent immunoassay method, used in sheep blood analysis, for application in bovine and human prion diseases using blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine analysis. |
| | Improved methods must enable detection of PrPsc in the early stages of disease, prior to clinical symptoms. |
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