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What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and how was it discovered?
An investigation has recently been opened to clarify the death of a biochemist who was studying this disease and had thousands of unauthorized samples in his laboratory in Barcelona
An investigation has recently been opened to clarify the death of a biochemist who was studying this disease and had thousands of unauthorized samples in his laboratory in Barcelona
Three institutions are trying to ascertain the origin of the infectious Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease samples discovered in the biochemist’s laboratory. The 45-year-old investigator died in 2022