Prion News

Posted April 12, 2008:

• Protecting A Life-saving Blood Product From Human Form Of Mad Cow Disease

Posted April 8, 2008:

• Transmitting Prion Diseases In Milk

Posted March 19, 2008:

• New Insights Into Mad Cow Disease: Diversity Of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Agents Discovered

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Nano-sensor For Better Detection Of Mad Cow Disease Agent

Posted December 12, 2007:

• New Tests Identify Lethal Prion Strains Quickly And Accurately

Posted December 1, 2007:

• Levels Of Prion Protein In Brain May Not Be Reliable Marker For Disease

Posted November 22, 2007:

• Prion Fingerprints Detected With Glowing Molecule

Posted October 1, 2007:

• Lymph Nodes Can Be Key In Spreading Prion Infectivity

Posted September 15, 2007:

• Prions May Activate Retroviruses In Infected Brain Cells

Posted September 10, 2007:

• Small Clumps Of Prion Proteins May Be Primary Cause Of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Posted August 17, 2007:

• Newly Discovered Prion Protein May Offer Insight Into Mad Cow Disease

Posted July 10, 2007:

• Study Advances Variant CJD Prion Detection

Posted July 9, 2007:

• Soil Particles Found To Boost Prion's Capacity To Infect

Posted July 6, 2007:

• Prion Propagates In Foreign Host

Posted July 4, 2007:

• Manganese Levels Increase In Scrapie-infected Sheep Before Clinical Symptoms Develop

Posted May 9, 2007:

• Scientists Identify Prion's Infectious Secret

Posted May 3, 2007:

• Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease In Mice

Posted April 27, 2007:

• Chronic Wasting Disease Is Transmissible Among Rodents

Posted March 19, 2007:

• Toward Safer Disposal Of Animals Infected With Mad Cow And Other Prion Diseases

Posted February 26, 2007:

• Researchers Develop Resin Beads That Capture Mad Cow Disease Agent From Blood

Posted January 26, 2007:

• Identifying Variation In The U.S. Bovine Prion Gene

Posted January 24, 2007:

• Team Finds Crucial Protein Role In Deadly Prion Spread

Posted January 3, 2007:

• Genetics Research Helps Scuttle Scrapie

Posted January 1, 2007:

• Mad Cow Breakthrough? Genetically Modified Cattle Are Prion Free

Posted December 4, 2006:

• New Approach To Mad Cow Disease Successful In Lab: Prion-infected Mice Survive Longer

Posted November 1, 2006:

• Researchers Developing New Strategy To Combat Prion Diseases

Posted October 31, 2006:

• A Potential Anti-prion Drug With 'Unprecedented' Potency

Posted August 21, 2006:

• Human Version Of 'Mad Cow' Disease Might Be Spread Via The Reuse Of Surgical Instruments, Study Suggests

Posted July 7, 2006:

• Prion Disease Agent Causes Heart Damage In Mouse Study

Posted July 6, 2006:

• Prion Find Points Way To Test For Human 'Mad Cow' Disease

Posted June 29, 2006:

• Brittle Prions Are More Infectious

Posted April 28, 2006:

• Can Dementia Spread From Mother To Offspring?

Posted April 14, 2006:

• Soil-bound Prions That Cause CWD Remain Infectious

Posted March 31, 2006:

• New Evidence Questions Simple Link Between Prion Proteins And 'Mad Cow' Disease

Posted November 22, 2005:

• First Ever Study To Investigate Impact Of Chronic Wasting Disease On Humans

Posted October 22, 2005:

• Cell Cultures Can Sort Out CJD And Scrapie Infectious Agents

Posted October 20, 2005:

• Protein Involved In 'Mad Cow' Disease

Posted August 29, 2005:

• 'Mad Cow' Proteins Successfully Detected In Blood

Posted June 15, 2005:

• Variant Prion Protein Causes Infection But No Symptoms

Posted May 25, 2005:

• Scientists Observe Infectious Prion Proteins Invade And Move Within Brain Cells

Posted May 14, 2005:

• Active Vaccine Prevents Mice From Developing Prion Disease

Posted April 25, 2005:

• Fibril Shape Is The Basis Of Prion Strains And Cross-species Prion Infection

Posted February 8, 2005:

• Infectious Agent Linked To Mad Cow Disease Found In Organs Other Than The Brain

Posted July 30, 2004:

• Synthetic Prion Causes Neurological Disease In Mice

Posted May 27, 2004:

• Researchers To Study Fate Of Prions In Wastewater

Posted April 9, 2004:

• Researchers Make Major Gain In Understanding How Prions Jump Species

Posted March 23, 2004:

• Artificial Prions Created

Posted January 30, 2004:

• A New Twist On The Mad Cow: Scientists Discover The Normal Prion Protein May Contribute Directly To Disease

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