Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, adapt in order to spread between ...

The discovery of how these prion aggregates form in axons and how to inhibit them, reported in Science Advances, may ultimately have a significance that goes far beyond prion diseases.

BETHESDA, Md., March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've discovered a new form of prion disease that damages brain arteries and might lead to new Alzheimer's disease therapies. The researchers ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

The researchers discovered a marked drop in the amount of the normal prion protein in eight different types of prion diseases. Strikingly, this drop occurred months or years before the animal ...

“The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center ... But CWD in deer, first discovered in the 1960s, has only become a larger problem over time, as the disease has spread farther ...

A new study has shone light on the molecular steps behind the spread of prion diseases, a group of incurable brain conditions that have puzzled researchers for decades. Alzheimer’s disease wears down ...

Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of prions, “an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents,” in the words of the Nobel committee. But even though Prusiner’s ...

Medical researchers have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, adapt in order to spread between various types of animals.

“The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center ... But CWD in deer, first discovered in the 1960s, has only become a larger problem over time, as the disease has spread farther ...