{"id":758,"date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-286\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:13","slug":"innovation-anthology-286","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/01\/26\/innovation-anthology-286\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #286:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 286.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nPrion researchers have discovered that <b>soil<\/b> plays an important role in the transmission of <b>chronic wasting disease<\/b> among deer in the wild.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>Dr. Judd Aiken<\/b> is with the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Dr. Aiken, infected deer shed the prions in fecal matter and saliva.  They also consume a lot of dirt, for minerals and when grazing.  He wanted to know if these prions would stay in the soil or pass into the water table.<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR:  JUDD AIKEN: <\/b><em>What we found was that prions bound very, very tightly to, montmorillonite clay and very difficult to remove an infectious agent when its bound to the clay.   The interesting thing and I guessed wrong on this when we started these experiments, &#8211; the interesting thing, is  this tight binding actually enhanced the infectivity and made the prions more infectious.  We\u2019ve looked at soil minerals, we\u2019ve looked at whole soils, and  in all cases, we get an enhancement, a significant enhancement, roughly 700 fold enhancement of infectivity.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Aiken says these infected prions can persist in the soil for years, and possibly decades.   But its significance still needs investigation.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to the <b>Canadian Institutes of Health Research. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\">Canadian Institutes of Health Research<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/cihr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02010-01-26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prion researchers have discovered that <b>soil <\/b>plays an important role in the transmission of chronic wasting disease among deer in the wild.  According to <b>Dr. Judd Aiken<\/b> of the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta, infected deer shed the prions in fecal matter and saliva.  They also consume a lot of dirt, for minerals and when grazing.  He wanted to know if these prions would stay in the soil or pass into the water table.<em>(Canadian Institutes of Health Research)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canadian-institutes-of-health-research","category-genomics","category-health-and-medicine","category-prions","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/286judd_aiken.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4608,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/4608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}