Around the year 2000, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) became a major global issue. It was caused by abnormal prions, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 2, 2009) – Whitehead Institute researchers have quintupled the number of identifiable prion proteins in yeast and have further clarified the role prions play in the inheritance ...

Prion diseases are a group of rare infectious neurodegenerative diseases caused by modifications in the prion protein (PrP) that prompt it to misfold. 1 Invariably fatal, prion disease can be genetic, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The 55-year-old Dutch woman’s brain just didn ...

Prions are fascinating, enigmatic, and might teach us not only about rare prion diseases like Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, or scrapie, but also about other more common neurodgenerative ...