It’s not bacterial, viral or even fungal. It’s caused by something we all have inside our bodies — proteins called prions.

Researchers at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh have revealed that prions – the infectious proteins that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy

CWD has been identified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, and prions are central to TSE genesis.

Freezing or cooking infected meat will not affect the prions, which are resistant to heat and cold.

Researchers have successfully detected prions in inoculated rodents using two methods, Science Daily reports.

CWD prions are primarily transmitted through saliva, feces or urine—though they also lodge themselves in tissue, or have been documented to entrenc

CWD affects the brain with misfolded proteins known as prions.

Yet other scientists contacted in the wake of the announcement said Bastian’s work is nothing new and that the body of work on diseases like CWD st

The rogue protein results from a change in shape of the normal prion protein.

Listen Listening... But the condition’s actual name is chronic wasting disease.

CWD deteriorates the central nervous system of deer, elk, and moose because of malfunctioning proteins, called prions.

CWD deteriorates the central nervous system of deer, elk and moose because of malfunctioning proteins, called prions.

which was more effective and resulted in far fewer allergic and autoimmune reactions as well as reduced the potential for exposure to viruses and p

What separates lethal prions from Alzheimer's-related amyloid plaques? Scientific American takes a look.

Prions are misfolded proteins that are somehow infectious (we’re still not really sure how or why) and for which we have no treatments or cures.

It is fascinating, if unsettling, news, that further blurs the line between amyloid and prions. Human prion diseases are rare.

Last December I wrote about research that revealed that infectious, lethal proteins called prions have the potential to be transmitted on optical m

CWD is caused by misshapen proteins called prions, which accumulate in the brain, spinal cord, and lymph nodes.

Affiliation 2 incorrectly read ‘Department of Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021 Jilin Province, China.’ Affiliati

This machine runs the samples through a bath of red dye, which only sticks to the misfolded proteins, called prions, that cause chronic wasting dis

CWD is caused by abnormal proteins called prions, which readily spread from infected to healthy animals through feces, saliva and other bodily flui

A definitive pre-mortem diagnosis of prion disease depends on brain biopsy for prion detection currently and no validated alternative preclinical d

Scientists detected abnormal prion proteins in multiple parts of the eye in people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The spread of prions to the brain does not occur by direct transmission across the blood-brain barrier, according to a study published November 29