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prion
prion , infectious agent thought to cause a group of diseases known as prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also called "mad cow... Read more |
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Stanley Ben Prusiner
Stanley Ben Prusiner 1942-, American neurologist, b. Des Moines, Iowa, M.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1968. Prusiner has been a professor at the Univ. of California, San Francisco since 1974. In 1997 he received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of prions... Read more |
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Kuru
Kuru Definition Kuru is the name of a progressively disabling and ultimately fatal brain infection caused by a unique protein particle called a prion. Description Kuru was first described in a specific tribal group in Papua, New Guinea. The word "kuru" means "to shake or tremble" in this... Read more |
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slow virus
slow virus technically a virus, such as a lentivirus, that causes symptoms in an infected host long after the original infection and progresses slowly. Although many viruses fit this description, the term slow virus is usually reserved for the first recognized lentiviruses, such as the virus that... Read more |
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Latent Period
LATENT PERIOD A "latent period" is the lag time between exposure to a disease-causing agent and the onset of the disease the agent causes. In infectious diseases it is often identical to the incubation period, but not always. A disease may have incubated but remains latent, or dormant, within the... Read more |
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insomnia
insomnia abnormal wakefulness or inability to sleep . The condition may result from illness or physical discomfort, or it may be caused by stimulants such as coffee or drugs. However, frequently some psychological factor, such as worry or tension, is the cause. Mild insomnia may often be relieved... Read more |
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Industrial research
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. The emergence and growth of industrial research and development during the twentieth century must rank as one of the most important economic developments in modern American history. There is no doubt that technological innovation is the primary driver of... Read more |
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United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), US organization which, along with its predecessor, the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), played a key role in the rapid wartime mobilization of American science and engineering. Established before US entry into the war, by 1945 the... Read more |
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Research
RESEARCH METHODS overviewgeorgine m. piondavid s. cordray qualitative and ethnographicleann g. putneyjudith l. greencarol n. dixon school and program evaluationlaura desimone verbal protocolstammy bourg OVERVIEW How do people learn to be effective teachers? What percentage of American... Read more |
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Cloud seeding
Cloud seeding Mark Twain once said that everyone talks about the weather , but no one ever does anything about it. Although he may have been correct in his day, since the 1940s, researchers have been at least partially successful in modifying one aspect of the weather—precipitation. After... Read more |
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Scientists proved prions destroy brain cells.(RESEARCH)
...have finally proved that prions destroy brain cells in...by replicating scrapie prions and showing their ability...confirmation will help create a quick blood test for prions. Researchers have also...will help in creating new ways to disrupt ... |
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Maven Semantic: Prion Research Database.
...database. The new database is now...particle, or prion, is an infectious...wrapper. The word prion, coined in 1982...and infection. Prions are the cause...general usage, prion refers to the...Countries for Prion ... |
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World-Leading Prion Research Launched.(News)
...the network. A new prion research facility...experts to tackle prion diseases in terms...folding of the prion protein. TSEs...exposed to modified prions from an infected...understand how prion ... |
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Prion Diseases (Diagnostics) New Test Detects Infectious Agents Causing Prion...
...agents that cause prion diseases. They...for detecting prions causing "mad...researchers new direction for...pathogen, called prion (for proteinaceous...attention. Previous research has revealed...native infectious prion ... |
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A DIFFERENT TUNE: CELLULAR IPOD PLAYS ROLE IN PRION BIOLOGY.
...heritable prion plaques mature...state for prions, when a prion is not heritable...ability to create a phenotype...works." This research is reported...mechanisms of prion organization...proteins. Prions are ... |
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Cannibalism and prion disease may have been rampant in ancient humans. (Gene...
...of a small New Guinea tribe...recently, kuru, a prion disease, was...variants of the prion gene. The work...protein called a prion. Contorted prions cause other...the variants create proteins that...kuru. Early ... |
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Researchers find clues to normal function of prion proteins.
...version of the prion protein, but scientists...researchers usually create a mutation in the...without functional prion proteins experience...understand how the prion protein interacts...copper ions. Their research has revealed tantalizing ... |
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VMRCVM researchers attempt to clone prion-free cattle to wipe out BSE threat
...the lack of the prion. If efforts to...production of prions are successful...made even if a prion-free cow was...subpopulations of prion-free cattle...production of new pharmaceutical...Sidebar] The goal: create an animal ... |
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Yeast prions: DNA-free genetics?
...proteins in the new cell to its cause. Whether prions can perform that...debate over whether prions are real (Science...yeast appears to create a trait called...all sides of the prion debate--although...proposed that yeast ... |
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NIH STUDY SUGGESTS THAT EARLY DETECTION IS POSSIBLE FOR PRION DISEASES.
...according to a new study from National...agents called prions that cause these...other animals, prion diseases are...about NIAID research on prion diseases...biology and research. Because prion...better test ... |
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