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03/15/2010 06:48 PM

To the Antarctic or Brazil for New Feathers: Thin ... - Science Daily

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology have studied the migratory behaviour of thin-billed prions and discovered that the animals spend their moulting season in two areas that are ...

03/15/2010 12:36 PM

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03/15/2010 11:41 PM

CWD rates continue to climb - Wrn.com

However, he believes new tools for fighting the disease are coming soon with work continuing on a potential vaccine or more effective ways to remove the prions that spread the disease from the soil. ...

03/16/2010 01:29 AM

BSE nightmare goes on for cattle producers - StarPhoenix

... much more onerous rules for removing and disposing of specified risk materials (SRM) -- the tissues such as the brain and spinal cord that would be most likely to harbour BSE prions. For animals ...

02/24/2010 05:56 PM

A Thousand and One Sleepless Nights - New York Times Blogs

is caused by an accumulation within the thalamus — the part of the brain that controls sleep regulation — of abnormal proteins called “prions.” The disease usually begins between the ages ...

03/15/2010 12:14 PM

Falklands Dispute: Argentine Sovereignty Won't Solve ... - Huffingtonpost.com

South Jason, an island about four miles long, supports populations of black-browed albatross (also known as mollymawks), endangered rockhopper penguin, Magellanic penguin, and prions (a small white ...

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03/19/2010 08:19 AM

Scientists Discover Lifeless Prion “Proteins” Capable of Evolution ...

For the first time in history, scientists at the American Scripps Research Institute have demonstrated that “lifeless” prion proteins, devoid of all genetic material, can evolve just like ...

03/07/2010 08:39 PM

Milk, Prions and Evolution « Astu's science blog

Another conclusion is that the prion protein exist at low levels in mammary gland and milk. Even detecting PrPc in milk requires hard work (enrichment of protein concentration, for example). ...

02/28/2010 11:58 PM

Mad cow disease prions capable of evolution, even without DNA

In the presence of infections like mad cow disease, prions are converted from their normal state into an abnormal, malignant state. As the disease gets passed around, it often becomes more ...

02/21/2010 02:07 PM

Using ozone to destroy misfolded prions | Troy Media Corporation

Feb. 21, 2010/ Troy Media/ -- Experiments with advanced oxidation and ozone treatment may hold some promise in destroying misfolded prions . . .

02/25/2010 11:30 AM

Reviewing the big P...Prions! : Aetiology

All this began not very long after my first lecture on 'Prion diseases'. I sit in class thinking, 'Hey we are built of protein matter, we eat forms of protein daily, we digest proteins daily ...

03/20/2010 02:54 PM

Podcast Review: Nature Neuropod February 2010 «

The episode features interviews with researchers who have published Nature papers on prions. In the second interview there is some interesting speculation about a possible role of ...

01/01/2010 09:00 AM

Observations: Prion evolution takes lessons on diversification ...

When prions are transferred from one species to another—like from sheep and cows to mice in the laboratory or to humans in the case of the fatally neurodegenerative variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

03/13/2010 04:49 PM

Mad-Cow Prions Found Living in Soil

While prion persistence in soil is problematic to assess since assays and models rely on adapted strains such as the hamster scrapie model, there seems to be good evidence both that ...

03/10/2010 02:04 AM

Biosolids and Compost | The Chic Ecologist

Land application of biosolids containing prions could represent a route for their unintentional introduction into the environment. Our results argue for excluding inputs of prions to ...

12/31/2009 01:00 PM

Evolution without genes - prions can evolve and adapt too : Not ...

Prions.jpg Jiali Li from the Scripps Institute in Florida has found that prions - the infectious proteins behind mad cow disease, CJD and kuru - are capable of Darwinian evolution, all ...

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