Prions Are Forever
Scientific American Blog: The Artful Amoeba,
The lethal proteins are in the Hard-To-Kill Hall of Fame -- and may be more common than we…
Annotating the literature on pathogenicity of PRNP variants
CureFFI.org,
In our study last year, by comparing case and population control allele frequencies, we managed to come to conclusions about…
Structural mutants of PrP
CureFFI.org,
Over 30 different structurally mutated versions of PrP have been observed naturally or experimentally. Understanding the…
Peripheral prion infection and the Y163X mutation
CureFFI.org,
Today, reading a collaborator’s biosafety protocol for handling prions, I was surprised to see that the procedure for what to…