They’re not alive, but they destroy with terrifying precision. Prions are misfolded proteins behind some of the most ...

After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

Do "prions" exist? The word "prion" is used in different ways. It is used to describe the TSE group of diseases but it is also associated with the "protein-only" hypothesis discussed below.

They're rare -- the U.S. has only about 350 cases of prion diseases each year. Prions are tiny proteins that, for some reason, fold over in a way that damages healthy brain cells. You can have ...

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 ...

Misshapen prions can turn their normal counterparts rogue, and over time the exponential accumulation of these bad prions destroys the brain from the inside. Though it can take time, even decades ...

Prions, the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, consist mainly of the misfolded prion protein (PrP Sc). The unique mechanism of transmission and the ...

The famed protein chain reaction that made mad cow disease a terror may be involved in helping to ensure that our recollections don't fade Prions, the protein family ...

What makes CWD so formidable is its cause: infectious misfolded proteins called prions. Prion diseases, which include mad cow disease, have long been known as terrifying and poorly understood threats.