Although prion studies driven by molecular biological and genetic investigations had created ... Why can’t they take vitamins and supplements or do brain exercises that will help prevent dementia?” I ...

"Scrapie" is the old Scottish shepherds' name for a disease of their sheep which has been known for several centuries. It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the ...

SOME diseases are so devastating that survival is virtually impossible – with fatality rates hitting 100 per cent. Thankfully, due to modern medicine, they’re incredibly rare. The few that ...

Infectious prions are also much more difficult to detect in the body than a virus; currently diagnoses of vCJD are confirmed after death by looking at brain tissue. Presently, only strategies such ...

an animal disease linked to misfolded prion protein (PrP). In 2001, Soto's group described the development of the 'protein misfolding cyclical amplification' (PMCA) assay, in which brain tissue ...

Prion diseases, a group of rare brain disorders, not only puzzle the world’s leading scientists but also progress swiftly ...

Fatal familial insomnia is a rare brain disorder that targets the brain and nervous system, which can be life-threatening.

Clumps of killer rogue prion proteins form in the brain, and make holes, causing it to look like a sponge. At the time, scientists knew about a sheep disease called scrapie that damaged the brain ...

Sporadic CJD happens when healthy proteins in the human body - prions - become spontaneously misshapen and build up in the brain. The man-made antibody treatment, called PRN100, aims to prevent ...

Some died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative brain condition, because the hormone infusions they received contained infectious proteins called prions that cause severe ...

A rare genetic condition that causes sleep difficulties, memory loss and involuntary muscles twitching has no cure and gets ...