We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called prions, these molecules are responsible for conditions such as bovine ...
If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...
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 ...
If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...
In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of ...
Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...
A study from Bochum describes a mammal-specific domain of the prion protein and offers new approaches for research into neurodegenerative diseases. At first, they cause memory deficits and ...
Prion diseases such as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and scrapie have prolonged incubation periods due to unknown molecular mechanisms. Polymorphisms in the prion protein gene are known to affect ...
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 ...
A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...
August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...