Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

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A silent but deadly epidemic is creeping through North America and scientists are sounding the alarm.

If there is no nucleic acid, how are agent properties specified? Secondly, PrP (sometimes called prion protein) , is associated with the agent somehow - but what does it do? This debate matters ...

also called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), results from the misfolding of a normal prion protein—an essential protein present in everyone. The misfolded form of the protein, the cause of CJD ...

Glioblastoma stem cells with fluorescent labeling for prion protein (red), CD44 protein (green), and cell nucleus (blue) ...

A mad cow’s milk may contain prion proteins and the disease might be transmitted from the mad cow to humans who happen to drink its milk Mad Cow Disease, also known as Bovine Spongiform ...

The algorithm was tested on proteins containing both disordered and non-disordered regions, including TDP-43 (associated with ALS), ataxin-3 (linked to Machado-Joseph disease), and the prion ...

Clumps of killer rogue prion proteins form in the brain, and make holes, causing it to look like a sponge. At the time, scientists knew about a sheep disease called scrapie that damaged the brain ...