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Peripheral Induction of Alzheimer's-Like Brain Pathology in Mice
October 21, 2010 — Pathological protein deposits linked to Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy can be triggered not only by the administration of pathogenic misfolded protein fragments directly into the ... > full story -
Eye Test for Neurological Diseases in Livestock Developed
October 19, 2010 — Researchers have discovered that the eyes of sheep infected with scrapie return an intense, almost-white glow when they're hit with blue light. That finding suggests technologies can be developed to ... > full story -
New Sporadic Prion Protein Disease: Variably Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy Shares Genotype Characteristics With Creutzfeldt-Jakob
August 13, 2010 — A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy, as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since ... > full story -
Infectious Prions Can Arise Spontaneously in Normal Brain Tissue, Study Shows
July 26, 2010 — In a startling new discovery, scientists have shown for the first time that abnormal prions, bits of infectious protein devoid of DNA or RNA that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease, can ... > full story -
Surgery Linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, According to Spanish Study
July 8, 2010 — A new study spearheaded by Spanish scientists demonstrates a causal relationship between the onset of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), caused by a protein called a prion, and general ... > full story -
Sequence and Structure Key to Prion Disease Transmission
June 14, 2010 — Prion diseases are lethal neurodegenerative disorders that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) in cows. New data ... > full story -
Eyes of Cattle May Become New Windows to Detect Mad Cow Disease
June 2, 2010 — The eyes may or may not be windows to the soul, as the old adage goes, but scientists are reporting evidence that a peek into the eyes of cattle may become the basis for a long-sought test to detect ... > full story -
New Model for Chronic Wasting Disease
May 26, 2010 — Scientists have generated a mouse model of cervid chronic wasting disease. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal prion-induced disease, similar to mad cow disease, that affects cervids such as deer, ... > full story -
New Form of Prion Disease Damages Brain Arteries
March 4, 2010 — Scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. ... > full story -
Researchers Induce a New Transmissible Prion Disease
February 26, 2010 — Researchers have conducted a study on prion disease and found that transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) can be induced without an outside catalyst like a ... > full story
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