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Soil-Bound Prions That Cause CWD Remain Infectious
April 14, 2006 — Scientists have confirmed that prions, the mysterious proteins thought to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, latch on tightly to certain minerals in soil and remain ... > full story -
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New Evidence Questions Simple Link Between Prion Proteins And 'Mad Cow' Disease
March 31, 2006 — While newly published research confirms that under laboratory circumstances prion-protein can be absorbed across the gut, it also shows that this is unlikely to occur in real life. In addition, the ... > full story -
Protein Sorting In Pigment Cells Sheds Light On Melanoma, Alzheimer's Disease
March 27, 2006 — Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have discovered how a protein called Pmel17 is sorted by pigment cells in the skin and eye to make a fiber matrix that eventually ... > full story -
Successful Cell Engineering May Lead To Mad Cow Prevention, Say Researchers
March 22, 2006 — Researchers at Texas A&M University have successfully "knocked down" the expression of possible disease-causing genes in a cloned goat fetus, perhaps paving the way for breeding disease ... > full story -
New Infectious Agents Pose New Risks For People With Bleeding Disorders
February 14, 2006 — An international team of scientists, including a hematologist from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has concluded that people with bleeding disorders such as hemophilia remain at risk ... > full story -
A Clue To Core Problem Of Neurodegenerative Disease And Cell Death
February 10, 2006 — Misfolded and damaged proteins are common to all human neurodegenerative diseases, but explanations for the mechanism that kills neurons have varied widely. Northwestern University scientists now ... > full story -
Toward a Better Understanding of Human Prion Diseases
January 8, 2006 — Internal standards allow meaningful comparison of PrP(Sc) profiles from different origins. Applying the new method to 50 postmortem samples from patients with sporadic CJD reveals substantial ... > full story -
History Of Human Cannibalism Eats Away At Researchers
January 3, 2006 — In a new study published by the journal Genome Research, a team of scientists reports that 'mad cow'-like diseases have not been a major force in human history, nor have been cannibalistic rituals ... > full story -
Study Links Progressive Aphasia Syndrome To Prion Gene
December 9, 2005 — Most people with a rare type of dementia called primary progressive aphasia (PPA) have a specific combination of prion gene variants, a new study shows. The study is the first to link the prion ... > full story -
First Ever Study To Investigate Impact Of Chronic Wasting Disease On Humans
November 22, 2005 — Researchers at Binghamton University have a first-ever opportunity to determine if Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer can be spread to humans who ingest "infected" ... > full story
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