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Cell Cultures Can Sort Out CJD And Scrapie Infectious Agents
October 22, 2005 — Research at Yale University School of Medicine shows that infection with a weak strain of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) prevents infection by more virulent strains and that the protection requires ... > full story -
Protein Involved In 'Mad Cow' Disease
October 20, 2005 — The scientific magazine Brain Research has recently published the results of research work by scientists from the University of Navarra. The work describes the presence and location of the ... > full story -
Prions Rapidly 'Remodel' Good Protein Into Bad, Brown Study Shows
September 8, 2005 — Brown Medical School researchers have discovered that prions -- the culprits behind fatal brain diseases such as mad cow and its human counterparts -- convert healthy protein into abnormal protein ... > full story -
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NIAID Scientists Characterize The Most Infectious Prion Protein Particles
September 8, 2005 — A new study of prions--apparently malformed proteins that initiate deadly brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans--has yielded surprising information about how the size of prions ... > full story -
'Mad Cow' Proteins Successfully Detected In Blood
August 29, 2005 — Researchers have found a way to detect in blood the malformed proteins that cause "mad cow disease," the first time such "prions" have been detected biochemically in blood. The discovery is ... > full story -
Variant Prion Protein Causes Infection But No Symptoms
June 15, 2005 — Abnormal prion proteins are little understood disease agents involved in causing horrific brain-wasting diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in people, mad cow disease in cattle and chronic ... > full story -
Scientists Observe Infectious Prion Proteins Invade And Move Within Brain Cells
May 24, 2005 — Scientists for the first time have watched agents of brain-wasting diseases, called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), as they invade a nerve cell and then travel along wire-like ... > full story -
Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease
May 14, 2005 — NYU School of Medicine scientists have created the first active vaccine that can significantly delay and possibly prevent the onset of a disease in mice that is similar to mad cow ... > full story -
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Study Sheds Light On Age-Related Changes Of Prion Diseases
April 26, 2005 — In a laboratory study, a mutant prion protein was found to assume its normal shape in the cell, but after it was unfolded it failed to return to its normal shape. This may explain why a prion ... > full story -
Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-Species Prion Infection
April 24, 2005 — Although prions from one species rarely infect other species, researchers suspected that the species barrier is overcome when prions in the two species share a certain level of genetic sequence ... > full story
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