Gene mutation alone causes transmissible prion disease

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:38 in Biology & Nature

For the first time, Whitehead Institute researchers have shown definitively that mutations associated with prion diseases are sufficient to cause a transmissible neurodegenerative disease.

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