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Are there other tests to determine prion disease related brain degeneration? Seems hard to believe they can't identify at all what the cause is.
by omgwtfbbq 5y ago
Are there other tests to determine prion disease related brain degeneration? Seems hard to believe they can't identify at all what the cause is.
- eganp 5y agoIntracranial inoculation of infected tissue is the old-school way to assay for prion activity. Sometimes it takes a few years to get an answer though, especially in cross-species assays [0]. [0] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5338-3_9 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-5338-3_...