Washtenaw County is now the 15th county in the state where the Department of Natural Resources has identified chronic wasting ...

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Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...

Onslaught of infections suggests that feeding operations are exacerbating the spread of a deadly prion disease that’s making ...

It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE), sometimes known as the "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob ...

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Prion diseases are characterized by abnormal folding of the host’s naturally-occurring prion protein, leading to rapid neurodegeneration. They can be genetic, sporadic—without known cause—or acquired, ...

In TSEs the normal cellular prion protein (PrP C) is transformed into an infectious disease-associated isoform, PrP Sc — a potential target for immunotherapy. In the March 6 Nature, Anthony R. White ...

The Center, through the Autopsy Coordination Program, offers financial and logistical assistance for a brain-only autopsy, to families with loved ones suffering from a suspected prion disease. This ...

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They now run a lab at the Broad Institute in Boston. By 2024 they had created an editor that, in mice, turns off the prion ...