A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the University of Cambridge, and could lead to a low cost, fast and efficient blood test to diagnose - and prevent possible transmission of - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
Currently, methods to detect vCJD-infected human blood samples that involve experimental animals, such as mice, are time consuming and expensive.
This new test could potentially be used on blood samples ...
A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the University of Cambridge, and could lead to a low cost, fast and efficient blood test to diagnose - and prevent possible transmission of - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
Currently, methods to detect vCJD-infected human blood samples that involve experimental animals, such as mice, are time consuming and expensive.
This new test could potentially be used on blood samples ...