In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead cat, clearly relished a brainteaser. Today, there is still no good definition. Life is ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins—a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the ...

The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

They’re not alive, but they destroy with terrifying precision. Prions are misfolded proteins behind some of the most horrifying and incurable diseases known to medicine. Here’s how they work—and why ...

Gerstmann-Strässler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is a rare, inherited brain disorder. It can cause cognitive difficulties, involuntary muscle movements, and difficulty speaking. Share on Pinterest ...

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The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Vallabh/Minikel lab at the Broad Institute has selected Argonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc., “Argonaut,” as the drug product manufacturer for a therapeutic ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks ...

The Dragon D-50 is a twin-nacelle aircraft specifically designed to provide unparalleled performance. A twin-nacelle configuration enables stereopsis, which offers several key advantages: Accurate ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team has now used new in vitro and ...