Case Western Reserve University researchers studying human prions—misfolded proteins that cause lethal and incurable diseases—have, for the first time, identified surface features responsible for the ...
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...
A new study by SISSA and the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' delves into the dynamics that cause prion proteins to take on the pathological form responsible for serious neurodegenerative ...
Prions are proteins that cause fatal and incurable neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals, some of which include sheep scrapie, chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids, Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...