It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE), sometimes known as the "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob ...
Luckily for us, ice-nine is fictitious. But its biological counterpart, unfortunately, is not. The misfolded proteins known as prions are very real. Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles, ...
Prion protein aggregates (brown) in the brain of a mouse expressing the human-elk protein. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...
“We have provided clear evidence of infectious prions within the skin of patients dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,” coauthor Byron Caughey of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
A recent paper reported the in vitro generation of new prion strains, supporting the idea that 'strain-ness' is encoded in the protein structure itself. This lays the groundwork for a ...
For the first time, researchers have developed an in vitro technique to detect the presence of prions in blood samples. An effective blood test for these lethal brain diseases could allow for ...
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What are prion diseases? Hunters died of fatal disorder after eating tainted deer meat, researchers sayCWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...
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