Sentences with phrase «fatal brain disease»

The scourge of the Fore was a disease they called kuru, a degenerative and always fatal brain disease contracted by eating the corpse of a previous sufferer.

All are fatal brain diseases with incubation periods that last years.

Veterinarian Linda A. Detwiler helps to ensure that a fatal brain disease that can afflict humans doesn't appear in U.S. cattle.

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions).

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

That variety cropped up in a different part of the brain than the other strains, and it also produced clumps of proteins akin to the amyloid plaques found in sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease of unknown origin that usually affects those over age 55.

THE protein behind a group of fatal brain diseases is transformed into a killer by an unidentified partner, according to a study released last week.

• Combining stem cells with gene therapy, an international collaboration announced the success of a pilot study to treat X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease caused by a mutation of the gene coding for the ALD protein.

Scientists have been unable to find a cure for the fatal brain disease.

Washington, D.C. — April 18, 2018 — The Clinical Research (CR) Forum, a non-profit membership association of top clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation's leading academic health centers, today awarded its most prestigious honor to a Massachusetts General Hospital research team for its discovery of the first successful gene therapy treatment for a fatal brain disease, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).

Prion diseases are a group of rare, fatal brain diseases that affect animals and humans.

This is the first successful gene therapy treatment to halt a fatal brain disease.

Why people on immunosuppressant drugs for autoimmune conditions have a higher incidence of an often - fatal brain disease may be linked to a mutation in a common virus, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

Latifah stars as Goergia Byrd, a retail sales clerk for Kragen's, a department store chain that doesn't always look out for the welfare of its employees, which only comes to light in Georgia's mind when she is diagnosed by the company doctor as having a rare and fatal brain disease.

After a bump on the head and a cursory CAT scan, it's revealed that she has a fatal brain disease, leaving her with about three weeks to live.

«Rabies is a very serious virus that results in a fatal brain disease in people or animals affected,» said Dr. Bonnie J. Sorensen, director of the Volusia County Health Department.

Pugs are be predisposed to Pug Dog encephalitis, a fatal brain disease.