News tagged with prp
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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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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