Sentences with word «kuru»

The example of kuru helped to show how BSE — mad cow disease — spread through the feeding of infected cattle brains to other animals, and how this led to variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (vCJD).

The example of kuru helped to show how BSE — mad cow disease — spread through the feeding of infected...

Gajdusek had just won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for unmasking a bizarre disease in Papua New Guinea called kuru, a byproduct of ritualistic cannibalism.

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

In humans kuru and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, both fatal neurological diseases, come into the same category.

And while kuru is of course a singular condition, its cousins — including mad cow and scrapie — are the stuff of everyday Western life, and it was for this discovery that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.

The sequel's title is reportedly Akachan wa doko kara kuru no?

Anderson weaves together stories of kuru, the Fore people it afflicted, and the biomedical researchers and anthropologists the disease and its victims attracted to the highlands of New Guinea.

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.

West Ham have jumped ahead of Arsenal & are lining up Henry Onye - bike - kuru??

But transgenic mice with the codon - 127 mutation were completely resistant to kuru and CJD regardless of whether they bore one or two copies of it.

The laureate acted out stages of kuru, which often causes victims to shake or laugh spontaneously.

Human prion diseases include fatal insomnia; kuru; Gerstmann - Straussler - Scheinker syndrome; and variant, familial and sporadic CJD.

By the 1960s, cannibalism had been all but eradicated, and very, very gradually — kuru's average incubation period may be up to 45 years — people stopped dying.

These misfolded proteins are thought to be responsible for several neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt - Jacob Disease (CJD) and kuru.

The story of kuru, as classically told in biology textbooks, is a tragic one.

This caused the disease kuru, which killed as much as 10 percent...

The new finding offers direct, physical evidence supporting protein - based inheritance, thus strengthening the «prion hypothesis» of the cause of neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, such as sheep scrapie, mad cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the kuru disease of the Papua New Guinea tribes.

The main character of The People in the Trees is based on a real man named Carleton Gajdusek, who spent much of the 1950s in Papua New Guinea, working with a tribe called the South Foré, who were beset with a mysterious and fatal neurodegenerative disease they called «kuru,» or the shaking.

According to Akira Sakano, Deputy Chief Officer at Zero Waste Academy in Kamikatsu, the town has a kuru - kuru shop whe...