Transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice

Transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion protein mutations. To determine whether three of the unstudied mutations are transmissible, scientists exposed research mice to brain samples from three people who died from a familial prion disease. After observing the mice for about two years, they found two of the mutations, Y226X and G131V, are transmissible. http://ift.tt/eA8V8J