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Cambridge/Massachusetts – US researchers have developed a possible therapy for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases. Using an epigenetic editor, they stopped the production of the prion proteins responsible for the disease in mice. According to their report in Science (2024; DOI: 10.1126/science.ado7082), the treatment could be carried out by a single intravenous injection of an adeno-associated virus that…