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Peter Larsen

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Assoc Prof U of Minnesota | Co-Director Minnesota Prion Research & Outreach | Co-Founder, CEO, CSO Priogen Corp | molecular biologist, mammalogist

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Something special is on the horizon for #CWD 🦌 outreach and education! Our MNPRO team has developed a choose your own adventure game that will help folks understand the disease and regional regulations. DM me with your email address if you want to be a beta tester this May!

16.03.2025 00:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evaluation of RT-QuIC Diagnostic Performance for Chronic Wasting Disease Detection Using Elk (Cervus canadensis) Ear Punches ABSTRACT. Sensitive and specific antemortem diagnostic tests are a prerequisite for effective management of chronic wasting disease (CWD). Paired with readily accessible samples that accurately reflec...

Excited to share our latest work from the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach on #CWD diagnostics! We’re advancing live animal testing options using RT-QuIC technology. This paper focuses on elk ear biopsies for CWD testing: meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/...

03.12.2024 00:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blood-Based Nanoparticle-Enhanced Quaking-Induced Conversion (Nano-QuIC): Inhibitor-Resistant Detection of Seeding Activity in Patients Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease A hallmark of α-synucleinopathies (e.g., Parkinson’s disease) is the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein in tissues and biological fluids. Protein amplification assays like real-time quaking-ind...

In 2019 we set out to develop new diagnostics for #CWD 🦌. Never imagined that journey would produce tech that might help with non-invasive, early detection of #Parkinson’s. Here is our latest work showing our Nano-QuIC test can overcome🩸inhibitors to ID a-syn biomarkers

pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

26.11.2024 01:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mule deer buck

Mule deer buck

CWD spreads to Montana hunting district near Great Falls
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
Photo: Jeremy Wheaton / Flickr cc

25.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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'Mad cow disease for deer': First cases of fatal brain disease found in B.C. Tests on two deer near Cranbrook, B.C., came back positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal degenerative brain disease that affects animals in the deer family.

Tests on two deer near Cranbrook, B.C., came back positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal degenerative brain disease that affects animals in the deer family.

01.02.2024 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer Despite early containment efforts, chronic wasting disease has been allowed to run rampant in the state. That’s bad news for all of us.

“Highly contagious and 100 percent fatal to the cervids that contract it, CWD is not caused by living organisms such as bacteria or parasites, nor by a virus. Instead, it is caused by misfolded proteins called prions that, once they infect an animal, build up in the brain and body”

18.11.2024 21:54 — 👍 71    🔁 24    💬 7    📌 3

Complete genome sequence of a vampire bat-related rabies virus obtained by metagenomics from a patient with encephalitis of unknown etiology, French Guiana https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39365087/

06.10.2024 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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