CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...

Prions are best described as misfolded proteins with an ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the ...

Luckily for us, ice-nine is fictitious. But its biological counterpart, unfortunately, is not. The misfolded proteins known as prions are very real. Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles, ...

Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. Over the winter, people chow down on the venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from ...

Prions represent a new class of infectious agents which propagate on a protein-only level, not requiring agent-encoded nucleic acids. Newly emergent prion diseases such as bovine spongiform ...

Interestingly, the extended PMCA yielded novel forms of misfolded prions that caused new disease phenotypes. When injected into wild-type hamsters, the PMCA-generated hampster PrP Sc caused ...