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 severe neurological decline before taking her life. The source of the ...

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

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.

The dark spots in the microscopic image, below right, are clumps of prions, believed by many scientists to be the disease-causing agent. Strictly speaking, the prion isn't a life form -- it's a ...

Over time, this zombie-like accumulation of diseased prions destroys the brain from the inside out, though it can take years to decades before symptoms like dementia show. But once they do ...

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 ...

The condition is fatal within one year in 90 percent of cases. The culprits behind the disease are prions—misfolded proteins that can induce normal proteins around them to also misfold and ...

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 ...

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 ...