"Scrapie" is the old Scottish shepherds' name for a disease of their sheep which has been known for several centuries. It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both ...

These tests can detect and confirm rapid destruction of the brain tissues is ... development of an RT-QuIC (or "real-time ...

All humans produce a protein called prion, which has relevant and extremely important biological functions for the maintenance of the central nervous system: it affects the functionality and ...

“I love the brain,” she enthused. “It’s super exciting because ... where she was introduced to the fascinating field of prions. Prion diseases are characterized by abnormal folding of the host’s ...

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, ...

However what is not known is how the prions damage brain cells (neurons). For the study, Dr Clive Bate and colleagues from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK compared the amounts of protein ...

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain condition, because the hormone infusions they received contained infectious proteins called prions that cause severe ...