Pick up a prion: Solid state NMR spots the differences
Researchers in the USA have used solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to study the rogue proteins involved in familial human cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). This hereditary neurodegenerative condition is one of the family of prion diseases that afflict mammals and include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (often referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease"), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, their equivalents in cats, mice, hamsters and other animals.
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