La Jolla, Calif.- The mysterious, highly infectious prions, which cause the severe destruction of the brain that characterizes "mad cow disease" and several human brain degenerative disorders, can be ...

UCSF scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a change in the folded shape of a prion protein changes its infectious properties—including the prion’s ability to jump “species barriers.” ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called prions, these molecules are responsible for conditions such as bovine ...

Research on chronic wasting disease at the Ames station is conducted in cooperation with the University of Tennessee, Mississippi State University, the University of Wisconsin and Colorado State ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Prion: Infection Prion Protein disrupted the functions of the human brain, turning individuals into wild, aggressive mutants. As part of a special military ...

Rapid diagnostic testing used to check for the presence of prion diseases such as “mad cow disease” might fail to identify some highly infectious samples, researchers have found. Currently, scanning ...

If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...

It is thought the prions that cause BSE in cattle, if transmitted to humans, cause the invariably lethal dementia known as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Despite a low disease prevalence in ...