Among other things, I guess this might be a big step on the way to proving a mechanism that relates bovine CJD to human CJD.
Nice article. I didn't know that there was a single "prion protein" that was causing all the trouble -- I had assumed there were different misfolded proteins causing different diseases. (Which, in a sense, there are -- the exact structure of the prion protein differs from species to species, which is what this article is about. And perhaps there are other, unrelated proteins that exhibit the same sort of problem, and this is just the first one we've found?)
I can't recall if it was already proven that bovine CJD came from feeding them scrapie sheep? Or was it scrapie sheep that were not heated high enough to save money.
Among other things, I guess this might be a big step on the way to proving a mechanism that relates bovine CJD to human CJD.
Nice article. I didn't know that there was a single "prion protein" that was causing all the trouble -- I had assumed there were different misfolded proteins causing different diseases. (Which, in a sense, there are -- the exact structure of the prion protein differs from species to species, which is what this article is about. And perhaps there are other, unrelated proteins that exhibit the same sort of problem, and this is just the first one we've found?)