The same prions responsible for mad cow disease and other deadly brain disorders could contain fragments that can treat drug-resistant bacteria, new research suggests.

Researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded treatment and a cure. Case Western ...

New antibiotic candidates for drug-resistant bacteria may reside inside prions, misfolded proteins in the brain best known ...

"When they are healthy, they look like tiny spheres; when they are malignant, they appear as cubes" stated Giuseppe Legname, principal investigator of the Prion Biology Laboratory at the Scuola ...

Scientists have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of several people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The scientists also exposed healthy mice to skin extracts from two CJD ...

A team of Whitehead Institute and Stanford University scientists are redefining what it means to be a prion—a type of protein that can pass heritable traits from cell to cell by its structure instead ...

Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions can sometimes feature damaging clumps of tau proteins that have become deformed. Scientists have now synthesized these misshapen entities in ...

Prions can infect both humans and animals, causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, mad cow disease in cattle, and chronic wasting disease in elk and deer. The infectious, misfolded protein ...

The misfolding of proteins and their subsequent deposition as amyloid in peripheral nerves lead to sensory and autonomic neuropathy A new hereditary form of neuropathy, prion protein (PrP) systemic ...

A new study in Nucleic Acids Research, published by Oxford University Press, suggests a possible effective treatment strategy for patients suffering from prion disease. Prion disease is a rapidly ...