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Biology: Microbiology
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'Jumping genes' help fungus kill salamanders - Jumping Genes: A New Threat to Salamanders      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A fungus that infects salamanders contains multiple copies of the same 'jumping genes', scientists h ...

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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Unraveling one of prion disease's deadly secrets - Unraveling One of Prion Disease's Deadly Secrets      (via sciencedaily.com) 

A professor of biochemistry and molecular biology report an unanticipated role for prion nucleation...

Biology: Microbiology
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Eyes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients show evidence of prions - Eyes of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Patients Show Evidence of Prions      (via sciencedaily.com) 

By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) are typically discovered, death is...

Biology: Microbiology
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Transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice - Transmission Risk of Familial Human Prion Diseases to Mice      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion prot...

Biology: Microbiology
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Targeted culling of deer controls disease with little effect on hunting - Targeted Culling of Deer Controls Disease with Little Effect on Hunting      (via sciencedaily.com) 

Chronic wasting disease, the deer-equivalent of mad cow disease, has crept across the US landscape f...

Biology: Microbiology
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New models advance the study of deadly human prion diseases - New Models Advance the Study of Deadly Human Prion Diseases      (via sciencedaily.com) 

By directly altering the gene coding for the prion protein (PrP), researchers have created mouse mod...

Biology: Microbiology
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New test detects toxic prions in blood - New Test Detects Toxic Prions in Blood: A Breakthrough in Prion Disease Diagnosis      (via sciencedaily.com) 

The first cases of mad cow disease in humans occurred in the late 1990s and are thought to be the co...