Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions can sometimes feature damaging clumps of tau proteins that have ...

Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression ... crucial step forward in our ability to understand and model these complex diseases." Han is the Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of ...

Researchers have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that behaves like a prion. This synthetic fragment forms ...

Researchers have built a synthetic tau-protein fragment that acts like a prion and could reveal more about tauopathies.

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid ... researchers from Papua New Guinea and the U.K. reveal the complex population structure and migration patterns ...

Prions, if they do contain only protein and ... In both HIV viruses around cells. cases, the complex and novel nature of that agent made identification and characterization infernally difficult ...

The ‘Molecular Devils’ That Cause the Most Fatal Diseases Ever Known CJD and similar brain diseases are caused by a misfolded version of the naturally occurring prion protein. When these rogue ...

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...