Mad Cow Disease

  • New Prion Discovery Reveals Drug Target for Mad Cow Disease and Related Illnesses
    In a new research report in the December 2010 issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists found that a protein our body uses to break up blood clots speeds up the progress of prion diseases. This substance, called plasminogen, is a new drug target for prion diseases in both ...More
    December 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Induce a New Transmissible Prion Disease
    Researchers at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have conducted a study on prion disease and found that transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) can be induced without an outside catalyst like a virus. ...More
    March 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Researchers Optimize New Detergent for Instrument Disinfection
    A new fast-acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, viruses, fungi and prions could help to reduce the spread of deadly infections in hospitals, according to research published in the February issue of the Journal of General Virology.Researchers from the ...More
    January 20, 2010
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • A Penny for Your Prions
    North CarolinaStateUniversity researchers have discovered a link between copper and the normal functioning of prion proteins, which are associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob in humans or "mad cow" disease in cattle. Their ...More
    June 25, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Infectious Prion Strains Identified by Accelerated Method
    Current tests to identify specific strains of infectious prions, which cause a range of transmissible diseases (such as mad cow) in animals and humans, can take anywhere from six months to a year to yield results – a time-lag that may put human populations at risk. ...More
    May 28, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Redefining What it Means to be a Prion
    Whitehead Institute researchers have quintupled the number of identifiable prion proteins in yeast and have further clarified the role prions play in the inheritance of both beneficial and detrimental traits.“The big debate in the field is are the prions functional ...More
    April 2, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Antibody Key to Treating Variant CJD
    Scientists at the University of Liverpool have determined the atomic structure of the 'binding' between a brain protein and an antibody that could be key to treating patients with diseases such as variant CJD.Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is part of a family of ...More
    March 4, 2009
    Posted in News
  • Mutant Proteins Result in Infectious Prion Disease in Mice
    A worldwide group of scientists has created an infectious prion disease in a mouse model, in a step that may help unravel the mystery of this progressive disease that affects the nervous system in humans and animals. The research team, including Christina J. Sigurdson, DVM, ...More
    December 5, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Tracking Down the Cause of Mad Cow Disease
    The cause of diseases such as BSE in cattle and Creutzfeld–Jakob disease in humans is a prion protein. This protein attaches to cell membranes by way of an anchor made of sugar and lipid components (a glycosylphosphatidylinositol, GPI) anchor. The anchoring of the ...More
    October 8, 2008
    Posted in News
  • Protective Pathway in Stressed Cells Not So Helpful for Prions
    Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that an important cellular quality control mechanism may actually be toxic to some brain cells during prion infection. The research, published by Cell Press in the Sept. 16th issue of the journal ...More
    September 17, 2008
    Posted in News
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