Peter Larsen
@peterlarsen.bsky.social
Assoc Prof U of Minnesota | Co-Director Minnesota Prion Research & Outreach | Co-Founder, CEO, CSO Priogen Corp | molecular biologist, mammalogist
Something special is on the horizon for #CWD 🦌 outreach and education! Our MNPRO team has developed a choose your own adventure game that will help folks understand the disease and regional regulations. DM me with your email address if you want to be a beta tester this May!
March 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Something special is on the horizon for #CWD 🦌 outreach and education! Our MNPRO team has developed a choose your own adventure game that will help folks understand the disease and regional regulations. DM me with your email address if you want to be a beta tester this May!
Excited to share our latest work from the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach on #CWD diagnostics! We’re advancing live animal testing options using RT-QuIC technology. This paper focuses on elk ear biopsies for CWD testing: meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/...
Evaluation of RT-QuIC Diagnostic Performance for Chronic Wasting Disease Detection Using Elk (Cervus canadensis) Ear Punches
ABSTRACT. Sensitive and specific antemortem diagnostic tests are a prerequisite for effective management of chronic wasting disease (CWD). Paired with readily accessible samples that accurately reflec...
meridian.allenpress.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Excited to share our latest work from the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach on #CWD diagnostics! We’re advancing live animal testing options using RT-QuIC technology. This paper focuses on elk ear biopsies for CWD testing: meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/...
In 2019 we set out to develop new diagnostics for #CWD 🦌. Never imagined that journey would produce tech that might help with non-invasive, early detection of #Parkinson’s. Here is our latest work showing our Nano-QuIC test can overcome🩸inhibitors to ID a-syn biomarkers
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Blood-Based Nanoparticle-Enhanced Quaking-Induced Conversion (Nano-QuIC): Inhibitor-Resistant Detection of Seeding Activity in Patients Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease
A hallmark of α-synucleinopathies (e.g., Parkinson’s disease) is the misfolding and aggregation of α-synuclein in tissues and biological fluids. Protein amplification assays like real-time quaking-ind...
pubs.acs.org
November 26, 2024 at 1:30 AM
In 2019 we set out to develop new diagnostics for #CWD 🦌. Never imagined that journey would produce tech that might help with non-invasive, early detection of #Parkinson’s. Here is our latest work showing our Nano-QuIC test can overcome🩸inhibitors to ID a-syn biomarkers
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Peter Larsen
CWD spreads to Montana hunting district near Great Falls
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
Photo: Jeremy Wheaton / Flickr cc
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
Photo: Jeremy Wheaton / Flickr cc
November 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM
CWD spreads to Montana hunting district near Great Falls
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
Photo: Jeremy Wheaton / Flickr cc
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
Photo: Jeremy Wheaton / Flickr cc
Reposted by Peter Larsen
Tests on two deer near Cranbrook, B.C., came back positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal degenerative brain disease that affects animals in the deer family.
'Mad cow disease for deer': First cases of fatal brain disease found in B.C.
Tests on two deer near Cranbrook, B.C., came back positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal degenerative brain disease that affects animals in the deer family.
dlvr.it
February 1, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Tests on two deer near Cranbrook, B.C., came back positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) — a fatal degenerative brain disease that affects animals in the deer family.
Reposted by Peter Larsen
“Highly contagious and 100 percent fatal to the cervids that contract it, CWD is not caused by living organisms such as bacteria or parasites, nor by a virus. Instead, it is caused by misfolded proteins called prions that, once they infect an animal, build up in the brain and body”
How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer
Despite early containment efforts, chronic wasting disease has been allowed to run rampant in the state. That’s bad news for all of us.
www.thenation.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:58 PM
“Highly contagious and 100 percent fatal to the cervids that contract it, CWD is not caused by living organisms such as bacteria or parasites, nor by a virus. Instead, it is caused by misfolded proteins called prions that, once they infect an animal, build up in the brain and body”
Reposted by Peter Larsen
Complete genome sequence of a vampire bat-related rabies virus obtained by metagenomics from a patient with encephalitis of unknown etiology, French Guiana https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39365087/
October 6, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Complete genome sequence of a vampire bat-related rabies virus obtained by metagenomics from a patient with encephalitis of unknown etiology, French Guiana https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39365087/