Science news articles about 'prion strains'

... prions from bovine classical BSE, L-type BSE, and ovine scrapie. Scrapie cases ... add a novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains and may help to better understand their possible ...

... was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on May 29, 2009. "Because some prion strains are pathogenic for humans and some are not, it's vital that we know the difference when we find them ...

... studies showed. The researchers now find that prion strains produced by combining normal hamster ... and vice versa. Although they are both rodents, prions from one of the two species normally don't ...

An atypical prion strain of mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BS, is more virulent than the classical strain, according to a researcher who spoke Nov. 14 at Kansas State ...