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

(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 ...

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 ...

Modification of a system for rapid amplification of misfolded prion proteins allows de novo generation of these infectious molecules and provides a glimpse of the diverse range of possible misfolded ...

Throughout Season 10 of Chicago Med, Dr. Caitlin Lenox (Sarah Ramos) has emerged as one of Gaffney's finest recruits. As she continues to expertly call the shots in the Emergency Department, viewers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Special proteins known as prions, which are perhaps best known as the agents of mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases, can also serve as an important source of beneficial variation in nature.

HHMI researchers have shown that mutations in yeast prions can affect their ability to infect different strains of yeast. Two important questions face biologists studying the infectious proteins ...