Save
Email
Print
Share
RSSBrowse News Stories
131 to 140 of 195 stories
view headlines only
-
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 -
Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Research
Mad Cow Disease
Dementia
Disorders and Syndromes
Diseases and Conditions
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 -
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 -
Prions
Veterinary Medicine
Mad Cow Disease
Gastrointestinal Problems
Microbes and More
Huntington's Disease
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 -
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
Search ScienceDaily
Number of stories in archives: 137,427
more 
