11.   To find the rogue proteins in urine, Gabizon and her assistant, Gideon Shaked, came up with a purification scheme.

12.   Accumulations of these rogue proteins are common in what researchers categorize as protein deposition diseases.

13.   After his death, doctors examined the appendix and found a rogue protein associated with the disease.

14.   And when these rogue proteins encounter normal prions in the brain, they convert the normal forms to the disease-causing shape.

15.   Prusiner won the Nobel for his discovery of prions, the rogue proteins that cause the disease.

16.   Scientists have developed a lab technique that might allow rapid screening of slaughtered cows for the rogue proteins that cause mad cow disease and a similar human illness.

17.   The rogue protein is called a prion.

18.   CJD is one of a family of so-called prion diseases in which a rogue protein proliferates in the brain.

19.   Victims of vCJD suffer a steady and irreversible loss of their mental and motor functions as a rogue protein proliferates in their brains.