News tagged with transmissible diseases
Officials, public urged to use latest evidence as guide in H1N1 prevention and protection
Aug 12, 2009 |
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As flu season draws nearer along with the potential for resurgence in H1N1, leading infectious diseases doctors, hospital epidemiologists, and infection preventionists urge officials to base recommendations for the public ...
Scientists devise accelerated method to determine infectious prion strains
May 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Gene mutation alone causes transmissible prion disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 26, 2009 |
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For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease.
Transmitting prion diseases in milk
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Apr 08, 2008 |
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Scrapie can be transmitted to lambs through milk, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. The study provides important information on the transmission of this prion-associated ...
Prion infectivity found in white and brown fat tissues of mice
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Dec 05, 2008 |
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Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Pa ...
A penny for your prions: Researchers study link between copper, mad cow disease
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have discovered a link between copper and the normal functioning of prion proteins, which are associated with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ...
Species barrier may protect macaques from chronic wasting disease
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people. The results ...
Primate disease field guide covers critical gap in global health
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Why are so many infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans? Why do we have so little capacity to predict epidemics, or avoid them? Some answers, and possible solutions, can be found in the first trench-to-bench guide ...
Researcher determines link between foie gras and diseases
Jun 18, 2007 |
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University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine professor and researcher Alan Solomon, M.D., director of the Human Immunology and Cancer/Alzheimer’s Disease and Amyloid-Related Disorders Research Program, led a team that ...
Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the 'species barrier'
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Sep 04, 2008 |
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Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. ...
Study on origin of mutation that causes fatal familiar insomnia
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A PhD thesis at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has studied the origin of the mutation that causes Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI). In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country there is a high rate of carriers ...
Lung inflammation from influenza could be turned off with new discovery
Jul 28, 2008 |
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A new discovery could lead to treatments which turn off the inflammation in the lungs caused by influenza and other infections, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Immunology.
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