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A novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains

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created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a prion protein characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual sheep scrapie cases. This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access ...





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Study confirms vCJD could be transmitted by blood transfusion

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The findings underline the importance of precautions against vCJD transmission, such as the Government decision in 2004 to ban blood donations from anyone who had received a blood transfusion since 1980.


Variant of mad cow disease may be transmitted by blood transfusions, according to animal study

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain ...


Sexually spread diseases up, better testing cited

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Sexually spread diseases continue to rise, with reported chlamydia cases setting yet another record in 2008, government health officials said Monday.


China reports 8 cases of mutated swine flu virus

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it.


WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.


First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported

First direct information about the prion's molecular structure reported

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 Universität ...


CDC: Swine flu cases seem to be dropping in US

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next.


Beverage can stay-tabs pose swallowing risk

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Three decades ago, a study revealed that beverage can pull-tabs were being swallowed by children, prompting a switch by U.S. manufacturers to stay-tabs. But a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological ...


CDC Confirms Four New Cases of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-Resistant H1N1

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tests performed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the request of infectious disease experts at Duke University Medical Center have confirmed this week that isolates from four patients with H1N1 influenza ...



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