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Since then, however, studies have shown that infectious mad cow prions can be found throughout all parts of the intestine, from the stomach down to

Prions, the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, consist mainly of the misfolded prion protein (PrP Sc).

But prions misfold so quickly that chaperones can't keep up, Serio says.

Imagine walking through a market teeming with humans and nonhuman animals: monkeys, pigs, bats, pangolins, beavers, rats, deer and other creatures

Abnormal proteins known as prions cause chronic wasting disease in cervids.

Prions are self-replicating proteins that cause contagious brain diseases.

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Prions are some of the weirdest things capable of making us sick.

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For example, prions originating from sheep appear to be, as far as we know, innocuous for humans, whereas BSE prions are highly promiscuous and can

Researchers worldwide are working to understand how certain kinds of proteins, called prions, cause degenerative brain diseases such as CAA.

Researchers were able to find the prions responsible for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), the most common prion disease in people, seeded

Worse yet, it can pass to humans when infected meat is eaten, leading to dementia and even death.

Prions. What are they? They‘re the smallest infectious particles one will ever meet.

Protein misfolding is like a zombie story Prions are "misfolded versions of a normal protein we all have," said Hoover, who has overseen

Second, we found through data analysis that small, secretive burrow-nesting seabirds, such as prions, storm petrels, and shearwaters, are more like

The senior author of the new study, Stanley Prusiner, M.D., director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, part of the UCSF Weill Instit

One prion can trigger normal proteins to transform themselves into additional prions, producing a cascade effect that eats away at the brains of in