The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public ...

Prion diseases are a group of different conditions that affect your brain and nervous system. They can cause severe dementia or problems with body control that get worse very quickly. They're rare ...

Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions don't contain genes, and yet they make ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The "mini prion" folds and stacks ...

Prion diseases are rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders caused by misfolded prion proteins (PrP) in the brain. This can lead to memory loss, behavior changes, and movement problems. Prion ...

They did not give the lodge's specific location. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of several prion diseases — uncommon neurodegenerative disorders affecting humans that are characterized by an ...

When Sonia Vallabh learned she has the genetic mutation for prion disease, she and her husband dropped everything to change careers. Today, they lead a Harvard/MIT lab searching for a cure.

NOTE: In order to receive a full and complete prion disease workup, we require both fixed and frozen tissue samples to be sent for analysis. Please send fixed and frozen tissue samples in separate ...

The findings are published in the journal BMC Cancer. In the study, the team discovered that the prion protein plays a key role in the biology of glioblastoma. "The treatment of glioblastoma has ...

This "mini prion" induces misfolding in normal tau, and its behavior is influenced by water structure around the protein, particularly by the P301L mutation. These findings may aid in developing ...