{"id":84973,"date":"2018-11-21T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/infectious-prions-found-in-the-eyes-of-patients-with-fatal-brain-disease"},"modified":"2018-11-21T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T15:42:26","slug":"infectious-prions-found-in-the-eyes-of-patients-with-fatal-brain-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/infectious-prions-found-in-the-eyes-of-patients-with-fatal-brain-disease","title":{"rendered":"Infectious \u2018Prions\u2019 Found in the Eyes of Patients with Fatal Brain Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/infectious-prions-found-in-the-eyes-of-patients-with-fatal-brain-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with the rare and fatal brain disorder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34717-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.html\">Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)<\/a> show signs of the disease in their eyes, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The study found evidence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/51763-prion-disease-chemical.html\">prions<\/a> \u2014 the infectious proteins that cause the disease \u2014 in the eyes of nearly a dozen patients with CJD.<\/p>\n<p>The findings suggest that patients\u2019 eyes could potentially provide a \u201cwindow\u201d to the brain that may help researchers diagnose the disease early, if new eye tests are developed. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/60744-ickiest-eyeball-injuries.html\">\u2019Eye\u2019 Can\u2019t Look: 9 Eyeball Injuries That Will Make You Squirm<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64140-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-eyes-prions.html\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/64140-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-eyes-prions.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with the rare and fatal brain disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) show signs of the disease in their eyes, according to a new study. The study found evidence of prions \u2014 the infectious proteins that cause the disease \u2014 in the eyes of nearly a dozen patients with CJD. The findings suggest that patients\u2019 eyes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}