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

Surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain have been identified for the first time, which may provide key information into treatments of neurodegenerative diseases ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine Prion diseases are rare but deadly neurodegenerative brain ...

Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry have developed an effective way of testing for prion diseases, a group of fatal neurodegenerative illnesses caused by abnormally folded copies of ...

Prion protein, notorious for causing the brain-wasting mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, may also be a coconspirator in Alzheimer’s disease, a new study in mice suggests. In mad cow and ...

New research from Japan suggests that a rare brain-destroying disease caused by rogue prion proteins may be becoming more common—likely due to an aging population. The study, published last month in ...

Prion diseases are slow degenerative brain diseases that occur in people and various other mammals. No vaccines or treatments are available, and these diseases are almost always fatal. Scientists have ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the ...

Chronic wasting disease is contagious and relentless. There is no cure, no way to test living animals, and once infections are introduced into wild populations, there is no realistic way to stop them ...