Unraveling one of prion disease's deadly secrets
Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 03:10
in Biology & Nature
A molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who has for decades studied the nightmarish group of fatal diseases caused by prions—chronic wasting disease in deer, mad cow in cattle and its human analog—credits a middle-of-the-night dream for a crucial insight, a breakthrough she hopes could lead to a cure.