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New test for prions
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021021-05
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Preventing new transmissions of the prion protein (PrP) isoforms that cause spongiform encephalopathies requires reliable diagnostic tests. In October 21 Nature Biotechnology, Jiri G. Safar and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, describe a new test, based on conformation-dependent immunoassay (CDI), that can detect the PrP isoforms that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy or chronic wasting disease in deer and elk (Nature Biotechnology, doi:10.1038/nbt748, October 21, 2002).
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