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 ...
Tag: Prions
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 ...
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 ...
UTHealth Awarded 11M to Study Deadly Prions
UTHealth's Claudio Soto, Ph.D., has received an $11 million NIH grant to study prion diseases. Researchers from McGovern Medical School ...
Prion Disease: New Test May Aid Detection of Deadly TSE
Image credit: CDC Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a family of rare progressive, neurodegenerative illnesses that affect ...
New Test Detects Toxic Prions in Blood
The first cases of Mad Cow disease in humans, or variant Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (vCJD), occurred in the late 1990s ...
RFI – Next Generation Diagnostic Devices for Biological Threats
The Joint Project Management Office for Medical Countermeasure Systems (JPM-MCS), under the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological ...
Biodefense News Headlines of the Week – July 21, 2013
Staying safe in a biology revolution | New approach to protecting prion protein from altering shape | Study: H7N9 highly ...
Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Prion Disease Treatment
Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden, in cooperation with colleagues from the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland, have developed ...
USDA Confirms First Mad Cow Disease Case Since 2006
The USDA has confirmed the nation's first case since 2006 of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow from ...
FDA Publishes New Edition of Bad Bug Book
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new ...
