whereas BSE prions are highly promiscuous and can cause disease in many different hosts, including humans. The characteristic promiscuity of a given prion strain can be retained on cross-species ...

Interestingly, the extended PMCA yielded novel forms of misfolded prions that caused new disease phenotypes. When injected into wild-type hamsters, the PMCA-generated hampster PrP Sc caused ...

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

"Scrapie" is the old Scottish shepherds' name for a disease of their sheep which has been known for several centuries. It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the ...

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 ...

and chronic wasting disease in deer are all variations of prion diseases, each caused by the same type of misfolded brain ...

It appears that the normal prions produced by the body help to prevent the plaques that build up in the brain to cause Alzheimer’s disease. The possible function for the mysterious proteins was ...

All caused bizarre and frequently devastating ... Brahic takes readers on a tour of prion diseases, with stops at scrapie (which makes sheep scrape incessantly against fence posts), mad cow ...

University of Central Florida researchers have helmed a study that found Florida panthers are not particularly susceptible to ...

Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic ...