Research provides new hope for vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) screening
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
US researchers have developed a way of detecting in blood the misfolded proteins that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The discovery, in tests on hamsters, could lead to the first screening test for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) - the human form of BSE.