'shadoo' prion sheds light on bse

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'shadoo' prion sheds light on bse

PRION diseases such as BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) just got more complicated.


These diseases destroy the brain when a wrongly folded version of a prion protein called PrP begins converting normal PrP - which usually protects the brain - into the misfolded variety. Researchers had suspected that other types of prion might exist in the brain, but none had ever been identified - until now.


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