Alzheimers Protein May Be Transmissible in Rare Cases

Alzheimer’s Protein May Be Transmissible, in Rare Cases

17:52 EST 18 Dec 2018 | Genetic Engineering News

A group from the University College London (UCL), Institute of Prion Diseases has put another puzzle piece in place in the case of deaths caused by human cadaveric growth hormone (c-hGH.) Some people who had received the c-hGH as children to help stimulate growth died of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD)—transmissible spongiform encephalopathy characterized by progressive and irreversible […]

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