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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Prions
Keywords: review paper, prion scrapie agent
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Date: 9 Jan 91 20:30:12 GMT
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I just came a review on prions from last September!

@article{Aiken1990,
author = "J. M. Aiken
 and R. F. Marsh",
title = "The Search for Scrapie Agent Nucleic Acid",
journal = "Microbiology Reviews",
volume = "54",
pages = "242-246",
year = "1990"} 

Kru was a disease of natives in New Guinea.
 
There is now evidence for genes in the host to be involved, but studies of the
infective agent itself have failed to identify a nucleic acid.  Still!  The
last sentence says it all for this modern mystery:  "The search continues."

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov