Catherine Haig
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
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So we give them this massive dose of infectious prions, and then we monitor them over time to see if they develop disease.
Because the CWD, the deer prions, are just a little bit different to the human, we can detect the difference between what was the original deer prion and if a human prion starts to emerge.
And the good news for that study was that we did not find any evidence of infection of the human organoids.
We have been doing that.
Our difficulty with the BSC has been getting hold of good quality tissues to use.
We've had tissues with very low titers that really would be too low for infection anyway.
So we are doing that.
We are trying to do that.
We have an abundance of CWD tissue.
Yes.
Yes, it would.
So I am aware that the CDC has tissues of CWD that has transmitted to cattle.
And we do actually want to look and see if that would be infectious to organoids.
There are some difficulties with these experiments because I think
People worry that they borderline on gain of function, which obviously you don't want to cross into that area.
Really, we just want to screen, is this infectious to the human brain organoids?
But I personally think that's a really critical experiment.
I think it's far more likely that a CWD that's gone into a cow could be a problem.
And I think we do need to know that.
It's not impossible.
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