New sporadic prion protein disease identified by Case Western Reserve
Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 03:14
in Biology & Nature
A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be identified since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was reported in the 1920s. The landmark finding from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Centre at Case Western Reserve University is published in the August issue of Annals of Neurology...