Gene mutation alone causes transmissible prion disease
Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:38
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease.
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