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    A collection of mementos from Sonia and Eric's wedding in 2009 hangs on a wall in their apartment.
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    A Couple's Quest To Stop A Rare Disease Before It Takes One Of Them

    Jun 19, 2017
    Twenty years. That's how long two grad students, Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel, think they have before a deadly disease envelops Sonia's brain. The Massachusetts couple is now racing to find a cure.
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    The Schwister family — (from left) Tim, Jacob, Kay and Joseph — in 2015, before Kay developed symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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    Prion Test For Rare, Fatal Brain Disease Helps Families Cope

    Feb 06, 2017
    Scientists now have a fairly noninvasive way to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare form of dementia. A similar test, they say, might offer earlier diagnoses of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
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    Big Data Coming In Faster Than Biomedical Researchers Can Process It

    Nov 28, 2016
    There's a plethora of projects to gather data about the brain, various kinds of cancer and every type of cell in the body. But researchers are struggling to keep up with the information explosion.
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    When Shirley Lindenbaum visited a South Fore village in 2008, one man said excitedly, "See how many children we have now?"
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    When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged

    Sep 06, 2016
    For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted through food.
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    Cows in England suspected of having mad cow disease in 1996. The illness was traced to particular proteins that gummed up brain tissue because they didn't fold properly.
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    Mad Cow Research Hints At Ways To Halt Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

    Mar 09, 2015
    Corinne Lasmezas began her career studying a disease that destroys the brains of cattle. Now she's using what she learned to search for drugs that can stop human brain diseases.
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