Chronic Wasting Disease: The Fatal Prion Infection Killing Elk and Deer in North America
Chronic wasting disease, a deadly neurological infectious disease that affects deer, elk and moose, is spreading across North America. Most ...
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Continuing Enhanced National Surveillance for Prion Diseases in the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has forecasted a cooperative agreement to continue enhanced national surveillance for human ...
Lethal Prions: New Atomic-Level Images of Abnormal Protein Structures Help in Search for Potential Treatments
The highest-ever resolution imaging of an infectious prion has provided the first atomic-level data of how these abnormal proteins are ...
Funding Announced for Campaign to Counter Chronic Wasting Disease in New York
U.S. Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, ...
Licensing Opportunity: Rapid Ultrasensitive Assay for Detecting Prions
Prion diseases are neurodegenerative diseases of great public concern. Currently, there are no tests that can accurately and economically detect ...
