A novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains
Date: 8.9.2008
A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a **prion protein** characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual **sheep scrapie** cases.
This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, may provide a novel method by which to study prion diversity and their possible changes during cross-species transmission.
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