The ribosome: A new target for antiprion medicines
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
New research results from Uppsala University, Sweden, show that the key to treating neurodegenerative prion diseases such as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease may lie in the ribosome, the protein synthesis machinery of the cell. The results were recently published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.