Researchers have isolated infectious prion proteins that, when injected into the brain, make hamsters display symptoms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). This work helps to resolve a ...

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A collection of exercises and practice problems on probability and statistics using Python. Covers concepts like probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, and more.

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Numbers refer to amino acid positions. NLS is nuclear localization signal, NES is nuclear export signal, RRM1 and RRM2 are RNA recognition motifs. Prion-like protein (PLP) domain spans from amino ...

A combination of upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction comprises the clinical ALS phenotype. Although the ALS phenotype was first observed by Charcot over 100 years ago, the site of ALS onset and ...

NASA iCOOL (Center for the Integration of the Origins of Life) and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States Institute of ...

The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...