MEDIA AVAILABLE: Images of amyloid beta (A-β) prions revealed by cellular bioassays and headshots of the corresponding authors available here. Media caption and credit information available here. Two ...

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 ...

Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions don't contain genes, and yet they make more of ...

Human prion diseases include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease (GSS). A new study reports a significant advance in the development of mouse models of human ...

Researchers this week say their work should upturn the conventional narrative of how Alzheimer’s disease happens. They argue the progression of Alzheimer’s is driven by a very specific form of two ...

A prion is an infectious agent responsible for several neurodegenerative diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, scrapie in sheep and goats, chronic wasting disease in deer, and ...

The misfolded proteins responsible for a fatal neurological illness in deer have a twist. The first detailed structure of an infectious prion that causes chronic wasting disease, or CWD, reveals ...

For many years, the only antemortem clinical laboratory test available for prion disease was limited to the detection of 14-3-3 and total Tau proteins in CSF. As rapid neurodegeneration is a hallmark ...

This test can aid in determining the type of prion disease. Different types of prion disease have different distribution patterns of the abnormal protein. Please note: cortical brain biopsies do not ...

Two friends who hunted deer together at the same lodge contracted an extremely rare brain disease and died, raising fears that they may have been infected by contaminated venison. A team of ...

It may take up to 16 months for a deer to show signs that it's been infected with chronic wasting disease, a deadly prion-based illness that makes the animals act like "zombies." While there hasn't ...