Prion diseases are progressive, incurable and fatal neurodegenerative conditions. The term
'prion'was first nominated to express the revolutionary concept that a protein could be …

Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal
neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present …

Direct effects of soil or its constituents on human health are through its ingestion, inhalation
or absorption. The soil contains many infectious organisms that may enter the human body …

Food waste has been a major barrier to achieving global food security and environmental
sustainability for many decades. Unfortunately, food waste has become an even bigger …

▪ Abstract Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that include
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

Prions are lethal mammalian pathogens composed of aggregated conformational isomers of
a host-encoded glycoprotein and which appear to lack nucleic acids. Their unique biology …

Prions are notorious protein-only infectious agents that cause invariably fatal brain diseases
following silent incubation periods that can span a lifetime. These diseases can arise …

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are inevitably lethal neurodegenerative
diseases that affect humans and a large variety of animals. The infectious agent responsible …

After several decades of intensive efforts, safe injectable preparations capable of effectively
delivering O2 to tissues and removing CO2, ie, so-called blood substitutes, appear to be …

Objectives To carry out a further survey of archived appendix samples to understand better
the differences between existing estimates of the prevalence of subclinical infection with …