A case of BSE—commonly dubbed "mad cow disease"—has been found on a Scottish farm, though the isolated case posed no risk to human health, the devolved government in Edinburgh said Thursday.
Oct 18, 2018
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) did not cross the species barrier to infect cynomolgus macaque monkeys during a lengthy investigation by National Institutes of Health scientists exploring risks to humans.
Apr 25, 2018
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Scientists have developed a new system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the laboratory, paving the way for research to find treatments for the fatal brain disorder.
Nov 20, 2017
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A team of French researchers from the CEA, AP-HP, CNRS, Inserm, Inra, ENVT, Institut Pasteur and MacoPharma have demonstrated that multiple variants of prions can coexist and manifest themselves in different clinical forms ...
Nov 7, 2017
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Nerve-damaging protein particles called prions have long been known to exist in mammals.
Jan 16, 2017
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Researchers at the MRC Prion Unit at UCL have found that it may be possible to determine whether or not a person has sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (sCJD) by testing their urine for the presence of abnormal prion proteins.
Oct 4, 2016
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France has confirmed an isolated case of mad cow disease in a five-year-old cow that died in the northeast Ardennes region.
Mar 24, 2016
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Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, have made advances in understanding the process involved in the progression and spread ...
Sep 22, 2015
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Prion diseases—incurable, ultimately fatal, transmissible neurodegenerative disorders of mammals—are believed to develop undetected in the brain over several years from infectious prion protein. In a new study, National ...
Sep 22, 2015
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As medical students, we don't get much intra-curricular exposure to surgery. Then there is the neurophobia, a chronic condition whose main symptom is the inability to apply knowledge of neuroscience to clinical situations. ...
Sep 16, 2015
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