The latest CJD News & vCJD News & Mad Cow Disease News articles published daily. Includes news on creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD), variant-creutzfeldt jakob disease (vCJD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow Disease) and spongiform encephalopathies of other animals (Scrapie).
Leeds Research Finds New Piece Of BSE Puzzle
20 November 2009
New research funded mainly through the Wellcome Trust with additional support from the Medical Research Council shows that a new treatment route for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its human form Creutzfeldt Jakob...
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Brain Disease "Resistance Gene" Could Offer Insights Into CJD
20 November 2009
A community in Papua New Guinea that suffered a major epidemic of a CJD-like fatal brain disease called kuru has developed strong genetic resistance to the disease, according to new research by Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists...
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The Protein Srebp2 Drives Cholesterol Formation In Prion-Infected Neuronal Cells Which May Promote Prion-Dependent Diseases
19 November 2009
Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische...
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