(NEXSTAR) – A recent report published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that two hunters contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal neurological disorder, after eating venison obtained from ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called ...

Just what are prions? You've probably heard they are the infectious agents that transmit mad cow disease among cattle and from cattle to people. You may have also noted the frightening description of ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...

UCSF scientists are reporting what they say is compelling evidence that the infectious agent known as prion is composed solely of protein. Their findings promise to create new tools for early ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 2, 2009) – Whitehead Institute researchers have quintupled the number of identifiable prion proteins in yeast and have further clarified the role prions play in the inheritance ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

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Brittleness is often seen as a sign of fragility. But in the case of infectious proteins called prions, brittleness makes for a tougher, more menacing pathogen. Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...