Do "prions" exist? The word "prion" is used in different ways. It is used to describe the TSE group of diseases but it is also associated with the "protein-only" hypothesis discussed below.

Luckily for us, ice-nine is fictitious. But its biological counterpart, unfortunately, is not. The misfolded proteins known as prions are very real. Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles, ...

Once an animal is infected there is no recovery or cure for CWD. Prions, naturally occurring proteins, cause the zombie ...

It’s but a prion disease; and if you’re not terrified of prions, you probably don’t know enough about them. Prions are infectious proteins that cause the body’s normal proteins to misfold, leading to ...

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 cause disease in many different hosts ...

May 17, 2024 — A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from ...

The long-drawn-out transfer of files from military courts to civilian courts following the Supreme Court landmark judgment, continues to attract criticism, with the Uganda Law Society writing to ...

For the first time, researchers have developed an in vitro technique to detect the presence of prions in blood samples. An effective blood test for these lethal brain diseases could allow for ...

In these conditions, the prions misfold into a toxic form and then spread throughout the brain, causing other prion proteins to misfold as well. Some researchers believe that proteins linked to other ...