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'Promiscuous Prion' Yields Clues To Infection Across Species Barriers
March 8, 2001 — By stitching together segments of two species of infectious yeast proteins, called prions, researchers have produced a hybrid prion that can adopt two distinct infectious shapes. This ability to ... > full story -
Prions May Play Crucial Role In Evolution
September 28, 2000 — Prions, abnormally folded proteins associated with several bizarre human diseases, may hold the key to a major mystery in evolution: how survival skills that require multiple genetic changes arise ... > full story -
NIAID Researchers Identify New Drugs To Treat "Mad Cow"-Like Disease In Mice
February 24, 2000 — NIAID researchers have identified a new class of compounds that slows the development of a "mad cow"-like prion disease in mice. If future studies extend these findings to humans, this ... > full story -
Researchers Show That Proteins Can Transmit Heritable Traits
January 31, 2000 — In an achievement that could lead to new techniques for genetic manipulation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers at the University of Chicago have altered a protein to transmit a ... > full story -
Deadly To Cattle And Humans, Prions May Help Other Organisms Survive, Researchers Find
January 24, 2000 — Molecular studies in yeast have yielded surprising evidence that the contorted proteins known as prions, often deadly to cattle and humans, may serve a beneficial role in some organisms, and possibly ... > full story -
Data Establishes Link Between "Mad Cow" Disease, Human Brain Disorder
December 21, 1999 — Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow" ... > full story -
New Evidence On How Prions Turn Fatal -- Structure Suggests Possibility Of Breeding Animals Resistant To "Mad Cow Disease"
April 12, 1999 — University of California researchers say a newly determined structure of the biological particles called prions may help explain how they cause infectious deadly diseases. Aberrant prions cause ... > full story -
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Lab Finds "Mad Cow" Signs Completely Absent In Texas
July 4, 1997 — No signs of "mad cow disease" have been found in Texas by the state's only laboratory which handles bovine autopsies, the laboratory's director said. ... > full story
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