Commentary Open Access
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Neurol.7.136
The Cost of Safety: Balancing Biosafety and Histologic Integrity in Prion Research
Alyssa Seerley1, Andrea Grindeland Panter1,*
- 1Weissman Hood Institute at Touro University; McLaughlin Research Institute, Great Falls, MT, United States
Corresponding Author
Andrea Grindeland Panter, andrea@mclaughlinresearch.org
Received Date: July 10, 2026
Accepted Date: August 03, 2026
Seerley A, Panter AG. The Cost of Safety: Balancing Biosafety and Histologic Integrity in Prion Research. J Exp Neurol. 2026;7(3):120–124.
Copyright: © 2026 Seerley A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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