Prions adhere to soil minerals and remain infectious

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  • who: Christopher J. Johnson and colleagues from the Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of have published the paper: Prions Adhere to Soil Minerals and Remain Infectious, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The authors demonstrated substantial PrPSc adsorption to two clay minerals quartz and four whole soil samples. The size-fractionated Mte used in this study has been reported to not contain such impurities at levels detectable by X-ray diffraction analysis , and precautionary pretreatment of the clay with a buffered neutral citrate-bicarbonate-dithionate solution to remove metal oxide coatings failed to prevent . . .

     

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