News tagged with prp
Gene mutation alone causes transmissible prion disease
For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2009 |
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What drove the cow mad? Lessons from a tiny fish
For over twenty years, scientists have known that a normal protein in the brain, PrP, or prion protein, can turn harmful and cause deadly illnesses like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...
Mar 10, 2009 |
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