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July 7, 2006

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-	Prion Disease Infectivity May Yield New Mouse Model for Heart Diseases Laboratory mice infected with the agent of scrapie show high levels of the scrapie agent in their heart several hundred days after being infected in the brain yielding a potential animal model to study heart amyloidosis.
-	The Risk for Melanoma Possibly Inherited Scientists Identify an Inherited Gene That Strongly Affects Risk for the Most Common Form of Melanoma