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Biology: Microbiology
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Endangered deer's prion gene could protect it from chronic wasting disease - Endangered Deer's Prion Gene Could Protect It from Chronic Wasting Disease      (via sciencedaily.com) 

China's Père David's deer was nearly gone in the late 1800s. Just 18 deer -- the very last of their...

Biology: Microbiology
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Soil compound fights chronic wasting disease - Soil Compound Fights Chronic Wasting Disease      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A major compound in soil organic matter degrades chronic wasting disease prions and decreases infect ...

Biology: Microbiology
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Scrapie could breach the species barrier - Scrapie Could Breach the Species Barrier: A Threat to Livestock and Humans      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The pathogens responsible for scrapie in small ruminants (prions) have the potential to convert the ...

Biology: Microbiology
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First successful vaccination against 'mad cow'-like wasting disease in deer - First Successful Vaccination Against 'Mad Cow'-Like Wasting Disease in Deer      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers say that a vaccination they have developed to fight a brain-based, wasting syndrome amon...

Biology: Microbiology
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Tracking down BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Tracking Down BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Researchers have identified an altered expression of endogenous retroviruses in BSE-infected macaque...

Biology: Microbiology
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Normal prion protein regulates iron metabolism - Normal Prion Protein Regulates Iron Metabolism      (via sciencedaily.com) 

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death i ...

Biology: Microbiology
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease treatment shows promising early results - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Treatment Shows Promising Early Results      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A promising new treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has shown 'very encouraging' early res...

Biology: Microbiology
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Blood test to screen for fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Blood Test to Screen for Fatal Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A blood test accurately screened for infection with the agent responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Ja...

Biology: Biochemistry Biology: Cell Biology Biology: Developmental Biology: General Biology: Microbiology
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Chronic wasting disease unlikely to move from animals to people      (via sciencedaily.com)     Original source 

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantia ...

Biology: Microbiology
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Why it's hard to make a bunny mad - Why It's Hard to Make a Bunny Mad      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that t ...

Biology: Microbiology
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'Mad Cow' blood test now on the horizon - Mad Cow Blood Test: A Breakthrough in Animal Health      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A simple blood test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Mad Cow disease is a step closer, following a...

Biology: Microbiology
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Chronic wasting disease - Chronic Wasting Disease: A Growing Threat to Wildlife and Humans      (via sciencedaily.com) 

New research summarizes the efforts in disease surveillance and risk management of chronic wasting d...

Biology: Microbiology
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New trick up their sleeve - New Trick Up Their Sleeve: How Scientists are Using Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Nerve-damaging protein particles called prions have long been known to exist in mammals. Now, in a s ...