Researchers find new potential treatment for prion diseases

Researchers find new potential treatment for prion diseases

A possible effective treatment strategy for patients suffering from prion disease, has been suggested by a novel study published by the Oxford University Press.

The result of the new study was published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.

Prion disease is a rapidly fatal and currently untreatable neurodegenerative disease.

While prion disease is quite rare, it typically causes rapid neurodegeneration.

About 300 cases of prion diseases are reported each year in the United States.

The most common form of prion disease that affects humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is another prion disease.

Prion diseases are caused by disrupting the structure of a normal human prion protein, producing toxic clumps in the brain.