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A Potential Anti-Prion Drug With 'Unprecedented' Potency
October 30, 2006 — The urgent search for a medication to treat prion diseases has led scientists in Germany to synthesize a new group of compounds, including one that is 15 times more potent than an approved drug now ... > full story -
Blood Transfusion-Transmitted Infections: A Global Perspective
September 27, 2006 — Thanks to the many blood-safety interventions introduced since 1984, the overall risk for most transfusion-transmitted infections has become exceedingly small. In the September 28 issue of the New ... > full story -
Scientists Discover A New Healthy Role For Fat
September 20, 2006 — Too much body fat may be a bad thing, but there is increasing evidence that too little fat also may have some surprisingly negative consequences. Researchers at UC Irvine have found that fat droplets ... > full story -
Human Version Of 'Mad Cow' Disease Might Be Spread Via The Reuse Of Surgical Instruments, Study Suggests
August 20, 2006 — A study published today in the online edition of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface has been exploring the likelihood that vCJD might be spread via the reuse of surgical instruments, and ... > full story -
Prion Disease Agent Causes Heart Damage In Mouse Study
July 7, 2006 — A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and Rocky Mountain Laboratories of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ... > full story -
Prion Find Points Way To Test For Human 'Mad Cow' Disease
July 7, 2006 — In the July 7, 2006, issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) describe experiments that may soon lead to a test that will enable ... > full story -
Brittle Prions Are More Infectious
June 29, 2006 — Brittleness is often seen as a sign of fragility. But in the case of infectious proteins called prions, brittleness makes for a tougher, more menacing pathogen. Howard Hughes Medical Institute ... > full story -
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Unraveling Alzheimer's: Clues May Be Found Visualizing Plaques In Human Brain, Mad Cow-Type Diseases
June 12, 2006 — An exciting new tracer allows visualization of abnormal protein deposits -- called amyloid plaques -- in human diseases like Alzheimer's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob and in prion diseases in animals like ... > full story -
Study Suggests New Human Genotype May Be Prone To Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
May 19, 2006 — A small study in this week's British Medical Journal suggests a new human genotype may be prone to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Although this new evidence may rekindle fears of a larger ... > full story -
Can Dementia Spread From Mother To Offspring?
April 28, 2006 — Researchers have demonstrated spread of senile amyloidosis from affected mice to their nursing offspring. The paper by Korenaga et al., "Transmission of amyloidosis in offspring of mice with AApoAII ... > full story
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