New test distinguishes between prion disease and other causes of rapidly progressive dementia
Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...
PBS7y
Do Prions Exist?
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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What are prion diseases?
CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...
SUAS News4d
UAVE Prion Mk3 Dragon D-50
The Dragon D-50 is a twin-nacelle aircraft specifically designed to provide unparalleled performance. A twin-nacelle configuration enables stereopsis, which offers several key advantages: Accurate ...
BioTechniques5d
The biotech bi-weekly: accelerating antibody discovery, developing gene therapy for prion disease and advancing genomic medicine
In this week’s edition of the biotech bi-weekly, learn more about CRAIC technologies’ 5D Spectral Surface Mapping solution, ...
The Scientist6mon
Understanding Neurodegenerative Disease with Prion Research
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, ...
WyoFile4d
Dead, CWD-infected elk found at third Wyoming feedground in just two months
Onslaught of infections suggests that feeding operations are exacerbating the spread of a deadly prion disease that’s making ...
Case Western Reserve University2mon
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...
Case Western Reserve University2y
NPDPSC Autopsy Coordination Program
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 ...
The Economist20d
Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
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 ...
Medscape1y
Why Are Prion Diseases on the Rise?
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Nature17y
Simplified ultrasensitive prion detection by recombinant PrP conversion with shaking
These observations suggest that a diagnostic test for prion infections based on CSF or other non-brain tissues or excretia may be possible. Further studies will be required to demonstrate the ...