Brain infection study reveals how disease spreads from gut

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Diagnosis of deadly brain conditions could be helped by new research that shows how infectious proteins that cause the disease spread. Research reveals how the proteins -- called prions -- spread from the gut to the brain after a person or animal has eaten contaminated meat.

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