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BRIEF COMMUNICATION ARISING was published"The possibility of human-to-human transmission of Alzheimer’s disease has not been considered until recently...
BRIEF COMMUNICATION ARISING was published"The possibility of human-to-human transmission of Alzheimer’s disease has not been considered until recently...
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Recent epidemiology study showed that Alzheimer and Parkinson Disease are not transmitted through blood transfusion.http://annals.org/aim/article/2530857/transmission-neurodegenerative-disorders-throug…
The authors state that 8 patients aged 36-51 years old with iCJD from c-HGH treatments had substantially higher levels of beta-amyloid in their brains compared to age-matched sporadic CJD controls...
http://imgur.com/LMM9jhLAlso unhappy - Need control images to tell whether the prion protein staining seen in the red arrow amyloid plaque in Fig...
I am a bit unhappy with the IHC. Comparethe color temperrature of the photos in Fig 1, b, c, d and e. Amyoid beta is always a bluer darker background than the prion protein...
Doesn't Nature have a new policy that authors must share original data upon request? I hereby request that the authors share the original data here...
@ Peer 1, in my opinion your criticism of the red/green channel signals has a lot of merit. I would however add a third possible explanation...
Another explanation is more trivial: Nature most likely encodes images as CMYK, rather than RGB. Something may be lost when you Unknowingly redo an artificial conversion to RGB in order to split the…
1. there were no claims about transmission of "Alzheimer's disease". the authors claim evidence for transmission of amyloid beta pathology and CAA, and express caution about the disease! The choice…
The BBC, which is usually breathlessly credulous with this kind of story, seems to be more cautious than usual, presumably because they sought some expert opinion for themselves:http://www...
Suddenly one wishes that Nature would follow the lead of EMBO J and their "transparent process" by publishing the reviews that their papers received.
This paper makes a major claim by suggesting that Alzheimer's disease can be transmissible after administration of human cadaveric pituitary-derived growth hormone contaminated with Alzheimer's…