After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and severe neurological decline before taking her life. The source of the ...

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

The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 made in the lab Date: January 4, 2016 Source: Sissa Medialab Summary: At times, to understand something well, it is useful to rebuild it from scratch. It happens with prions as well, say ...

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 ...