Scientists study compounds with anti-prion properties to address rare but fatal diseases

Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 05:01 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists from the University of Alberta is examining compounds with anti-prion properties, which can alter the misfolding of proteins in rare but universally fatal prion diseases like Mad Cow and Creutzfeld-Jakob. Their results have just been published in Nature Communications.

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