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Montana scientists uncover secret in brain-wasting diseases
Montana scientists made a surprising discovery recently that sheds new light on how deadly, brain-killing diseases like mad cow and chronic wasting destroy brain tissue.
Their research, published Thursday in the on-line version of the journal Science, shows that altering a brain protein associated with the diseases somehow slows or prevents symptoms of the disease, even though the brain is infected.
"It means we’ve weakened the process dramatically," said Bruce Chesebro, a scientist at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, who led the research along with scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
By JENNIFER McKEE – IR State Bureau
Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2005/06/03/montana/a07060305_02.txt
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