Researchers identify new biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow disease
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 14:10
in Health & Medicine
Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), a universally fatal, degenerative brain disease for which there is no cure. sCJD is one of the causes of dementia and typically leads to death within a year of disease onset...