Thursday January 15th 2009, 12:00 pm
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might have found a chink in one of biology’s most fearsome infectious agents: the prion.
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UW finding could be ‘first step’ in fight against chronic wasting disease prion.
French CJD acquittals contested (BBC News)
Thursday January 15th 2009, 5:43 am
An appeal is lodged against the acquittal of three French medical workers over the deaths of 117 children from the disease CJD.
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UW finding could be ‘first step’ in fight against chronic wasting disease prion (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Thursday January 15th 2009, 12:43 am
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison might have found a chink in one of biology's most fearsome infectious agents: the prion, believed responsible for the family of brain-wasting diseases that includes Creutzfeldt-Jakob in humans and chronic wasting disease in deer.
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