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Adlyfe, Inc.
Blood test developed for bovine spongiform encephalopathy
August 10th, 2005
Adlyfe, Inc., a privately held biotech company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, has developed a sensitive blood test for protein folding diseases that could provide earlier diagnosis of deadly diseases such as mad cow disease. This announcement is timely given the recent report issued by the Department of Agriculture reporting the second confirmed case of mad cow disease in the U.S. New results from this test and the breakthrough findings will be published in the Journal of Peptides. The test, developed by Cindy Orser, VP of research and development with Adlyfe, is designed to detect misfolded proteins that cause neurological diseases...
Source: Biotech Week (2005-08-10)
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