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Gene mutation alone causes transmissible prion disease

For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

What drove the cow mad? Lessons from a tiny fish

For over twenty years, scientists have known that a normal protein in the brain, PrP, or prion protein, can turn harmful and cause deadly illnesses like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Scientists identify most lethal known species of prion protein

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified a single prion protein that causes neuronal death similar to that seen in "mad cow" disease, but is at least 10 times more ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New study shows prions able to jump between species more easily than thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of French researchers has found that prions are more easily able to jump between species than has been previously thought. In their paper published in Science, they show that prions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Researchers work with platelet-rich plasma to heal chronic wounds in veterans

(Medical Xpress) -- During the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, blast injuries resulting from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and roadsides bombs took countless lives and left thousands of soldiers ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clinical trial seeks to determine whether platelet-rich plasma can ease the pain of osteoarthritis

For years, doctors have used platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, to promote healing after surgery. Now, Rush University Medical Center is studying whether PRP can help relieve knee pain in patients with mild to moderate osteoarthritis.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Mar 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows PRP, commonly used technique to improve healing, doesn't work in rotator cuff surgery

For years, doctors have used platelet rich plasma (PRP) to promote healing in various surgeries, but a recent study demonstrates that a type of PRP did not improve healing after rotator cuff repair. The study, conducted by ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study Offers Evidence That Spongiform Brain Diseases Are Caused By Aberrant Protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Newer treatment for Achilles tendon disorder does not appear to be effective

An apparently increasingly used treatment method for a type of Achilles tendon disorder that includes injection of platelet-rich plasma into the tendon does not appear to result in greater improvement in pain or activity ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Enhanced plasma shortens time off for injured athletes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Injured athletes who have their own enriched plasma injected into their bodies are healing faster and spending less time on the bench or on the disabled list.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Platelet-rich plasma: Does it work?

Platelet -rich plasma (PRP) is currently used as an alternative treatment method for several common orthopaedic-related sports medicine conditions. According to a new study in the October issue of the Journal of the American Ac ...

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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