The virus causing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, has spread far more quickly than any other coronavirus in recorded history. Why is it so contagious? One possibility is that its spike ...
Antibodies targeting the normal PrP version of the prion protein have been found in humans selected at random with no history of any associated transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Researchers ...
New research from Japan suggests that a rare brain-destroying disease caused by rogue prion proteins may be becoming more common—likely due to an aging population. The study, published last month in ...
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University will receive up to $20 million in funding as part of a grant renewal from the Centers for Disease ...
A professor of biochemistry and molecular biology report an unanticipated role for prion nucleation seeds that enhances their ability to appear and resist curing. A molecular biologist at the ...
Prion disease is a rapidly fatal and currently untreatable neurodegenerative disease. Although rare, with roughly 300 cases reported each year in the United States, it typically causes rapid ...
Researchers have drawn a possible link between the deaths of two hunters in the last couple of years from a rare neurological condition. A report, authored by medical experts from the University of ...
About four decades ago, reindeer in the high alpine Nordfjella region of Norway began to engage in a bizarre, new behavior: They would eat each other’s antlers. Termed osteophagia, the act actually ...
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