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Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Center for Prion Research have developed a new approach to field testing chronic wasting disease (CWD).
Researchers confirmed their findings in southeast Minnesota the week in March. According to a news release announcing the test, the team is first ever to successfully deploy a CWD field test.
A group of scientists from the University of Minnesotaâs Minnesota Center for Prion Research (MNPRO), have come up with a new tool in the fight against Chronic Wasting Disease that could lead to more efficient testing in the field and in turn potential slow the spread of the disease in this state and beyond.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease that affects whitetail deer and for which there is no cure, has become a major problem in parts of Minnesota, and throughout some neighboring states like Wisconsin, over the last several years.
Itâs a disease that has the potential to not only devastate the deer population in Minnesota, but to end deer hunting as we know it, if left unchecked.
Apr 23, 2021
University of Minnesota researchers at the Minnesota Center for Prion Research (MNPRO) have developed a novel approach to field testing chronic wasting disease (CWD). The development makes them the first-ever scientists to successfully deploy a CWD field test.
There are limited testing options available for CWD, leading scientists to investigate several new approaches with the hopes of obstructing the disease’s spread. Last spring, the MNPRO team worked with the Minnesota DNR to analyze tissue samples from CWD-positive white-tailed deer using a technique known as RT-QuIC. The team managed to obtain confirmation of protein-misfolding in just nine hours with that approach. Only a handful of labs currently have access to this top-of-the-line technology for CWD testing.