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Montana scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories doing prion research

An illness that strikes family members in their 50s, affecting their behavior and keeping them from sleeping. A shaking sickness that strikes only a tribe of New Guinea. A disease that strikes sheep and goats, causing them to scrape their bodies against anything they can get near, in an attempt to scratch an itch that exists only in their brains.

Rocky Mountain Laboratories http://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/dir/rml/pages/default.aspx in Hamilton is a biomedical research facility equipped for scientists to study some of the most dangerous, infectious diseases on the planet.

In August, the New England Journal of Medicine published a paper that represents a significant step forward in prion disease research. One of the authors of the paper, which details a new test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is Byron Caughey of RML.

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By BRIANA WIPF

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