Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Prionics and PrioSense join forces to develop live tests for prion diseases

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 4th, 2002

Prionics AG and PrioSense, a newly founded spin-off company of Hadasit at the Hadassah University Medical Centre in Jerusalem, have started the joint development of a live test for prion diseases.

The test is based on the recent discovery of disease associated prion protein in the urine of both animals infected with BSE and humans infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

"Current diagnostic screening tests can only be used for post mortem diagnosis of the disease as they require brain tissue for analysis," explains Dr. Ruth Gabizon who is directing the research at PrioSense. "The new urine based test provides reliable early indicators of the...

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