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HemoBioTech Announces Dramatic Clearance Of Prions With The ORTH Technology HemoBioTech (OTCBB:HMBT) announced that their orthogonal (ORTH) technology showed to be extremely effective in elimination of prion proteins that cause mad cow disease (BSE) and a similar disease in humans (vCJD/CJD). The ORTH technology removed prion proteins at a rate of 10 -10 from biological fluids used to make specific pharmaceutical products. ...more	12 Mar 2009
Utility Of Circulating DNA As Novel Diagnostics For Human Cancer, Mad Cow Disease And Other Conditions Chronix Biomedical - developing and applying proprietary techniques to detect and analyze circulating nucleic acid sequences for the diagnosis and management of disease - reported that three recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals have further confirmed the potential diagnostic and prognostic utility of fragments of DNA and RNA that circulate in the blood, known as circulating nucleic acids (CNAs). ...more	12 Mar 2009
What Drove The Cow Mad? Lessons From A Tiny Fish - Clues To Understanding Prion Diseases For over twenty years, scientists have known that a normal protein in the brain, PrP, or prion protein, can turn harmful and cause deadly illnesses like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. What they could not explain is why large amounts of this normal protein are produced by our bodies in the first place. ...more	10 Mar 2009
Oral Quinacrine Does Not Increase Survival In Patients With Prion Disease The drug quinacrine does not increase survival in patients with prion disease. The results of the first major prospective study of a treatment for human prion disease in the UK are published in an Article early Online and in the April edition of The Lancet Neurology. Human prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), can arise spontaneously, be inherited through a genetic mutation, or develop through infectious transmission. ...more	10 Mar 2009
Discovery Of Antibody Key To Treating Variant CJD Scientists at the University of Liverpool have determined the atomic structure of the 'binding' between a brain protein and an antibody that could be key to treating patients with diseases such as variant CJD. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is part of a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders, called prion diseases, which affect both animals and humans. ...more	06 Mar 2009
New Piece In Alzheimer's Puzzle Discovered By Yale Researchers Yale researchers have filled in a missing gap on the molecular road map of Alzheimer's disease. In the Feb. 26 issue of the journal Nature, the Yale team reports that cellular prion proteins trigger the process by which amyloid-beta peptides block brain function in Alzheimer's patients. "It has been a black box," said Stephen M. ...more	26 Feb 2009
Haemophiliac Died With But Not From Variant CJD The UK's Health Protection Agency said earlier today, 17 February, that a post mortem on a patient with haemophilia had found evidence in his spleen of abnormal prion protein that causes variant CJD (vCJD) but it did not kill him: he died with rather than from the disease which is commonly called mad cow disease. The post-mortem is part of an ongoing study by the UK Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation and the National CJD Surveillance Unit that started in 2001. ...more	18 Feb 2009
vCJD Abnormal Prion Protein Found In A Patient With Haemophilia At Post Mortem Evidence of infection with the agent (abnormal prion protein) that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) has been found at post mortem in the spleen of a person with haemophilia. The patient, who was over 70 years old, died of a condition unrelated to vCJD and had shown no symptoms of vCJD or any other neurological condition prior to his death. The vCJD abnormal prion protein was only identified during post mortem research tests. ...more	18 Feb 2009
Haemophilia Society Demands Urgent Action On VCJD Blood Transmission, UK Following the first confirmed case of a person with haemophilia being infected with vCJD through their NHS treatment, the Haemophilia Society is demanding that the Government takes swift action to offer counselling to potential victims, and to protect the blood supply. ...more	18 Feb 2009
Sticky Antibodies Block Prion Disease Antibodies that stick to a brain prion protein called PrP could be the key to treating prion diseases like variant CJD and preventing people accidentally exposed to prions from going on to develop the fatal brain disease. Using a precise visualisation technique, called X-ray crystallography, scientists have identified an antibody that has the best ability to bind to PrP in the brain. ...more	12 Feb 2009
Common Soil Mineral Degrades The Nearly Indestructible Prion In the rogues' gallery of microscopic infectious agents, the prion is the toughest hombre in town. Warped pathogens that lack both DNA and RNA, prions are believed to cause such fatal brain ailments as chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and moose, mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. In addition to being perhaps the weirdest infectious agent know to science, the prion is also the most durable. ...more	16 Jan 2009
Genome-wide Association Study To Assess Risk Of Variant VCJD Reports On Genetic Control Of Susceptibility And Incubation Time Although measures were taken to prevent further transmission to humans after the outbreak of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) from infected cattle in the mid-1990s, the full extent of this outbreak and that of other prion diseases* might not yet be realised. Prion diseases are controlled by genetic factors, and normal variations in DNA might influence susceptibility to prion diseases and affect the length of their silent incubation period. ...more	08 Dec 2008
Mutant Proteins Result In Infectious Prion Disease In Mice A worldwide group of scientists has created an infectious prion disease in a mouse model, in a step that may help unravel the mystery of this progressive disease that affects the nervous system in humans and animals. The research team, including Christina J. Sigurdson, D.V.M., Ph.D. ...more	08 Dec 2008
Prion Infectivity Found In White And Brown Fat Tissues Of Mice 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 Pathogens. Prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are infectious progressive fatal neurodegenerative diseases which affect humans as well as wild and domestic animals. ...more	05 Dec 2008
FDA November 2008 Update On Feed Enforcement Activities To Limit The Spread Of BSE To help prevent the establishment and amplification of Bovine Spongiform Encephalophathy (BSE) through feed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) implemented a final rule that prohibits the use of most mammalian protein in feeds for ruminant animals. This rule, Title 21 Part 589.2000 of the Code of Federal Regulations, here called the Ruminant Feed Ban, became effective on August 4, 1997. ...more	30 Nov 2008
Diverse Symptoms Of Prion Disease In Humans Replicated In Mouse Model A comprehensive mouse model of inherited prion disease exhibits cognitive, motor, and neurophysiological deficits that bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms experienced by patients with the human version of "mad cow disease," Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). ...more	30 Nov 2008
Prion Switching In Response To Environmental Stress If you have had a hard day at work, you may change your eating habits, perhaps favoring comfort food, but you don't suddenly develop the ability to eat the plate and cutlery. ...more	25 Nov 2008
National CJD Surveillance Unit Publishes 16th Annual Report For 2007 And Scientific Report, UK The Sixteenth Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU) is published today. The report looks back over the period from May 1990 (when the Unit was set up) to 31 December 2007. The report outlines the Unit's work in the clinical surveillance of variant (vCJD), sporadic and iatrogenic CJD. ...more	14 Nov 2008
Variant CJD And Blood Transfusion Until recently the risk of developing CJD as a consequence of a blood transfusion was a theoretical concern. However, in December 2003 a patient died from vCJD after receiving a blood transfusion from a donor who subsequently also had vCJD. Since then, three further patients have been identified. One patient died of an unrelated condition, but a post mortem examination established that the abnormal form of the prion protein was present in their body. ...more	23 Oct 2008
Hot On The Heels Of The Mad Cow Pathogen - First Synthetic Anchored Prion In the mid-90s, mad cow disease was on everyone's lips and the front page of every newspaper. What made the epizootic outbreak so alarming was the as-sumption that a mutation of the fatal Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (vCJD) could be triggered in humans through the consumption of BSE-infected beef. In both species, the diseases result in brain degeneration. For quite some time, re-search has proceeded on the assumption that wrongly folded prions are re-sponsible. ...more	21 Oct 2008
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