The obvious treatment for prion diseases would be a chemical that prevented (and, ideally, reversed) the misfolding.

ECONOMIST: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Thus the misfolding can spread inside an individual, and also from one individual to another, in a manner similar to a viral infection.

ECONOMIST: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

We are extremely proud of this partnership and see it as important validation of our key capabilities in protein misfolding, as well as our partnership strategy.

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The technique, known as protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA), works by by mimicking and accelerating the replication of prions so they are more easily detected in test samples.

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