Prion removal breakthrough?

The number of people who fall victim to prion diseases is still pretty small, but this is very encouraging news considering the recent concerns about contamination of livestock and blood supplies:

Scientists have found a way to remove disease-causing proteins from infected animal blood, which they hope may fight the human form of mad cow disease.

The UK and US researchers identified a molecule which removed the prion proteins from blood infected with scrapie, the Lancet reports.

Posted by David on December 22, 2006 10:52 AM