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Published online 22 December 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061218-13
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Prions removed from animal blood
Filtration technique could make transfusions safer, its inventors say.
A US-led research team has developed a technique to filter potentially deadly prion proteins from blood. They suggest that the method should be used routinely in attempts to remove prions, which can cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), from blood products used for transfusions.
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