Lichens may aid in combating deadly chronic wasting disease in wildlife
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada, according to U.S. Geological Survey research published today in the journal PLoS ONE.