Genetic treatment shows promise against scrapie.

Prion diseases have become the newest target for treatment with RNA interference (RNAi). The gene-silencing technique has been used to prolong the lives of mice infected with scrapie, a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

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Genetic treatment shows promise against scrapie.

Prion diseases have become the newest target for treatment with RNA interference (RNAi). The gene-silencing technique has been used to prolong the lives of mice infected with scrapie, a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

Read the story here.