A double killer who was told he would never leave jail after murdering his neighbour and a Sunday school teacher had died in prison following a pos

The dire confirmation of a prion disease among the ranks of feedground elk comes from a cow killed just a few miles from where alfalfa pellets are

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Prion diseases comprise several conditions. A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally.

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Misfolded proteins are a factor in a number of diseases, including prion diseases, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.

The Center, through the Autopsy Coordination Program, offers financial and logistical assistance for a brain-only autopsy, to families with loved o

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is responsible for managing surveillance and the research operations activities u

One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the formation of amyloid plaques--sticky clumps of a protein called amyloid beta--that collect

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More perniciously, misfolded tau spreads like a prion, a form of infectious disease that is spread without a virus or bacterial pathogen.

More perniciously, misfolded tau spreads like a prion, a form of infectious disease that is spread without a virus or bacterial pathogen.

(Image: Sherif Zaki, Wun-Ju Shieh/CDC) New research from Japan suggests that a rare brain-destroying disease caused by rogue prion proteins may be

What is still being left to fully understand is how or why the cold has a protective effect on the brain.

After years of anecdotal evidence, scientists have finally nailed down one link between brain health and the “polar bear plunge.” In a study of the

CJD is the most common form of a human disorder caused by "prions," pathogenic agents that induce abnormal folding of specific cellular p

The problem of different prion strains has long been regarded as a formidable obstacle to the protein-only hypothesis, and remains vexing for those

Some rare forms of dementia, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are caused by a type of protein called a prion.

The prions that cause these diseases are actually the mutant, misfolded form of a protein that’s naturally produced in many mammal species, also ca

The researchers noted that the genetic forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease generally would be identified using results of genetic testing for mutati

working to understand genetic variants of the prion protein in order to protect against prion disease The Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research:

Such use of a diagnostic test designed for deer is possible because CWD is in a family of neurodegenerative ailments called prion diseases, charact

Prion and other neurodegenerative diseases.