NIH Study Confirms: Humans Unlikely To Catch Deer Prion Disease
Research on cerebral organoids provides strong evidence for a significant species barrier. A recent study employing a human cerebral organoid model to investigate prion diseases…
Research on cerebral organoids provides strong evidence for a significant species barrier. A recent study employing a human cerebral organoid model to investigate prion diseases…
Scripps Research Discovery Illuminates How Brain Cells Die in Prion Diseases Researchers show how toxic aggregates are formed inside brain cells, and how to block…
While testing wild strains of yeast containing prions, researchers at MIT discovered that prions awaken dormant stretches of genes that can help the yeast survive…
A new study published in Science shows that prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), are able to jump…