CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...

It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE), sometimes known as the "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob ...

CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...

And all, scientists later learned, could be blamed on infectious proteins — prions. These malevolent molecules, first identified in 1982, are the subject of neurovirologist Michel Brahic’s ...

Prions, the causative agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, appear to consist entirely of PrP Sc, an orderly aggregated, β sheet–rich isoform of a ubiquitous membrane protein ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

May 17, 2024 — A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD ...