More than 200 cases of variant Creutz-feldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad cow, have occurred worldwide since the 1990s. No accepted treatment exists for the devastatingly fatal disease or any of the others caused by infection with the malformed, malignant protein particles called prions. Giovanna R. Mallucci and her co-workers at the Institute of Neurology in London have performed an experiment in mice that could lay the groundwork for an eventual cure.
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机译：自1990年代以来，全球已发生200多种人形的疯牛形式的Creutz-feldt-Jakob病。对于毁灭性致命疾病或因感染畸形的恶性蛋白质颗粒病毒引起的其他疾病，尚无公认的治疗方法。伦敦神经病学研究所的Giovanna R. Mallucci和她的同事对小鼠进行了一项实验，该实验可能为最终的治疗奠定基础。
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