Prion proteins appear to be the key culprit in the loss of memory in mice with brains riddled with plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Yale scientists report. The findings reported in the ...
If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...
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The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...
Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University researchers have described with single-molecule precision how copper ions cause prion proteins to misfold and seed the misfolding and clumping of nearby prion ...
Scientists have developed a gene-silencing tool that shows promise as a therapy against fatal prion diseases. The tool, a streamlined epigenetic editor, paves the way for a new class of genetic ...
When Julie Moreno arrived at Texas A&M University as a first-generation student in 2000, she wanted to work in veterinary medicine. But the opportunity to work in a research laboratory during her time ...
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