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Medicine’s Wen-Quan Zou makes finding about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Abnormal proteins discovered in skin of patients with rare brain disease

The New York TimesWen-Quan Zou, associate professor for the School of Medicine, discussed his recent findings about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which suggests that skin samples could be used to detect the disorder, as opposed to biopsies.