Researchers Induce A New Transmissible Prion Disease

Friday, February 26, 2010 - 18:07 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the Baltimore Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have conducted a study on prion disease and found that transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) can be induced without an outside catalyst like a virus.

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