Prions. What are they? They‘re the smallest infectious particles one will ever meet.

Protein misfolding is like a zombie story Prions are "misfolded versions of a normal protein we all have," said Hoover, who has overseen

Second, we found through data analysis that small, secretive burrow-nesting seabirds, such as prions, storm petrels, and shearwaters, are more like

The senior author of the new study, Stanley Prusiner, M.D., director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, part of the UCSF Weill Instit

One prion can trigger normal proteins to transform themselves into additional prions, producing a cascade effect that eats away at the brains of in

“A state-of-the-art structure has been built at Shivamogga at a cost Rs 100 crore which will be inaugurated shortly.

Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for discovering the role of prions in BSE and related diseases.

Prions are notoriously dastardly — after all, these infectious proteins are the cause of mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The risk of suicide also appeared to vary by pathogen type, with risk slightly higher for ‘other’ pathogens (including parasites, prions, etc.) inf

Lindquist’s early work focused on prions, proteins that can adopt alternative conformation and can induce a similar refolding of other copies of th

Eric Schirmer received his PhD from the University of Chicago where he studied the HSP100 family of chaperones and their interactions with prions.

CWD is caused by an infectious, deformed protein called a prion. Prions are known to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer.

Additionally, besides contracting the disease from other deer, the animals can become infected from the environment itself as the chronic wasting d

Chronic wasting disease is a contagious disease caused by abnormal prions. It is found in deer, elk and other cervids.

Meyer also said that there needs to be more research on the uptake of CWD prions by plants and the potential spread of the disease by plants shippe

A mutant protein has been isolated from sheep suffering from a prion disease called scrapie.

It's not clear how the deer became infected, but CWD is transmitted by prions that can remain viable in the environment for years.

It’s not clear how the deer became infected, but CWD is transmitted by prions that can remain viable in the environment for years.

It's not clear how the deer became infected, but CWD is transmitted by prions that can remain viable in the environment for years.

It’s not clear how the deer became infected, but CWD is transmitted by prions that can remain viable in the environment for years.

I heard the word “hoof” and couldn’t help but think of Mad Cow Disease, and my mind was flooded with images of biohazard suits, international boyco

It is caused by abnormal proteins called prions that cause other proteins in the body to rearrange into an abnormal structure and make their way to

The DNR requests that the carcass not be simply thrown out into the woods, as that carcass would contain infected CWD prions and disposing of it im

Once in a host’s body, prions transform normal cellular protein into abnormal shapes that accumulate until the cell ceases to function.