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Remembering Christopher Fry
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Christopher Fry, 97, died recently, raising everywhere the
question, "Who?" Fry was a busy figure in English theater from the
late 1920s into the '80s, as actor, director, head of theaters and of
touring troupes. He was best known as a playwright. Little was heard
from or of him for the last 40 or so years. He had fallen out of
fashion. The high arc of his career and creativity ran from the late
'40s though the '50s. It was at about midpassage in that period that
I tumbled to him. Not yet exactly apprenticed to the language, I was
nonetheless besotted with it. My great enthusiasm in junior ...
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Prions and prion diseases: current perspectives.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...understand the etiologic agent of prion diseases and their basic transmission mechanism. Prions and Prion Diseases: Current Perspectives...biochemical and molecular features of prions and the normal prion protein, various laboratory...
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Prions Beget Prions?(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Infectious Disease Alert
; ...existence of 1 type of prion could enhance the...other types of prions. Derkatch et al...the [PSI(+)] prion. In this study...the presence of prions formed by Rnq1...the appearance of prions is enhanced by heterologous prion aggregates. Since...
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Prions: Invaders or defenders?(research into the protein that plays key role in trasmission of such diseases as Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...protein called a prion. Unlike bacteria or viruses, prions are able to transmit...of an infectious prion. However, the...that infectious prions could cross the...present in all known prions - a good candidate for the prion's raison d...
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RESEARCH: PRIONS CAN CREATE NEW PRIONS
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...quick to point out that prions are not necessarily bad...said in the case of one prion, all it does is interfere...other proteins in their prion confirmation allow the...spontaneous appearance of other prions at a higher rate...are aware of only one prion in humans. Liebman says...
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Prions survive sewage plant; Experts say they see little risk to human health
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...disease also can shed prions in their urine...another potential prion source. In 2006...improperly deactivated prions were released into...that the lab's prion management protocols...low prevalence of prion diseases and the low probability of prions surviving to enter...
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Prions: The New Biology of Proteins.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
; ...patients. Whether prions are infectious proteins...act alone to cause prion diseases remains...United Kingdom. Prions: The New Biology...enigmatic world of prion diseases. The book...characteristic features of prions, including the historical evolution of the prion hypothesis, a ...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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PRIONS CAN SURVIVE SEWAGE TREATMENT UW-MADISON STUDY SHOWED MAD COW PROTEINS ARE NOT DEGRADED IN TREATMENT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...incineration out of fear of prions leaching through the...disease also can shed prions in their urine, feces...effluent was clean and prion-free. Biosolids...low prevalence of prion diseases and the low probability of prions surviving to enter...
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PRIONS FOUND IN FECES OF DEER ASYMPTOMATIC FOR CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...concentrations of prions in these feces would...cause the disease. "Prion levels in feces samples...the infectivity of prions, possibly by slowing...that prolonged fecal prion excretion by infected...that deer or elk prions cannot be transmitted to humans." The prion is an ...
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'Promiscuous Prion' Yields Clues To Transmission Across Species Barrier.
Newspaper article from: Genomics & Genetics Weekly
; ...proteins, called prions, researchers have produced a hybrid prion that can adopt...In mammalian prions, it was known that the same prion protein, even...different yeast prion strains has important...understanding mammalian prions. "We cannot take...
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Prion Diseases--An Evidence-based Protocol for Infection Control.
Magazine article from: AORN Journal
; ...be taken to protect health care personnel? PRIONS Prion diseases are caused by a unique class of pathogens...acquired diseases, commonly referred to as prion diseases. ANIMAL PRION DISEASES Prions are responsible for at least six diseases in...
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