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

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

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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of several people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The scientists also exposed healthy mice to skin extracts from two CJD ...

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

Researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded treatment and a cure. Case Western ...

The virus causing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, has spread far more quickly than any other coronavirus in recorded history. Why is it so contagious? One possibility is that its spike ...