Prions

  • Researchers Find Hidden Side of Prion Diseases
    Medical researchers in Canada and the United States recently published their joint findings that fatal prion diseases, which include BSE or "mad cow disease," have a hidden signature. Findings published this month in the peer-reviewed journal, Public Library of Science ...More
    November 30, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Researchers are Redefining 'Clean' in Study of Low-Temperature Plasmas
    Aiming to take "clean" to a whole new level, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park have teamed up to study how low-temperature plasmas can deactivate potentially dangerous biomolecules left behind by ...More
    October 31, 2011
    Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization
  • Screen Finds an Antidepressant and Other Drugs That Might Work Against Prion Diseases
    In a new study NYU School of Medicine researchers report that they have found several chemical compounds, including an antidepressant, that have powerful effects against brain-destroying prion infections in mice, opening the door to potential treatments for human prion ...More
    September 14, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • 'Good' Prion-Like Proteins Boost Immune Response
    A person's ability to battle viruses at the cellular level remarkably resembles the way deadly infectious agents called prions misfold and cluster native proteins to cause disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report. This study marks the first discovery of ...More
    August 8, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • CDC Assesses Potential Human Exposure to Prion Diseases
    Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have examined the potential for human exposure to prion diseases, looking at hunting, venison consumption, and travel to areas in which prion diseases have been reported in animals. Three prion diseases ...More
    May 23, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Research Focuses on Prion Diseases
    New research by Chongsuk Ryou, a researcher at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UK College of Medicine, may shed light on possible treatments for prion diseases. Prion diseases, ...More
    March 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • BSE Pathogens Can Be Transmitted by Air
    Airborne prions are also infectious and can induce mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. This is the surprising conclusion of researchers at the University of Zurich, the University Hospital Zurich and the University of Tübingen. They recommend precautionary ...More
    January 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Research Identifies Drug Target for Prion Diseases
    Scientists at the University of Kentucky have discovered that plasminogen, a protein used by the body to break up blood clots, speeds up the progress of prion diseases such as mad cow disease. This finding makes plasminogen a promising new target for the development of ...More
    January 10, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Show Prions Mutate and Adapt to Host Environment
    Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that prions, bits of infectious protein that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease," have the ability to adapt to survive ...More
    December 17, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Study Suggests Early Detection is Possible for Prion Diseases
    A fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists. Researchers at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and ...More
    December 3, 2010
    Posted in News
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