Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both ...

Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...

Across North America, deer and elk are increasingly suffering from a devastating illness. They stumble, drool, and appear visibly emaciated. They lose their fear of humans, staring blankly as if their ...

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Led by a team at the Broad Institute, the new gene therapy aims to address the root cause of prion disease by using the CHARM (Coupled Histone tail for Autoinhibition Release of Methyltransferase) ...

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The development of treatment strategies will rely on results from two main areas: (i) efforts to identify infected but asymptomatic individuals, and (ii) research to understand prion biology ...

They now run a lab at the Broad Institute in Boston. By 2024 they had created an editor that, in mice, turns off the prion gene in the brain, preventing the disease from taking hold. Next up is making ...