Case Western Reserve University researchers studying human prions—misfolded proteins that cause lethal and incurable diseases—have, for the first time, identified surface features responsible for the ...

The study was carried out in the Dulbecco Telethon Laboratory of Prions & Amyloids at CIBIO, lead by Emiliano Biasini, University of Trento and involved the team led by Prof. Pietro Faccioli, a ...

Surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain have been identified for the first time, which may provide key information into treatments of neurodegenerative diseases ...

Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions - misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases - have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible ...

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 ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...

The identification of a previously unknown malady in the Fore Tribe of Papua New Guinea drew international attention to the group of brainwasting diseases called transmissible spongiform ...

Researchers studying prions -- misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases -- have identified the surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain. Case ...

CLEVELAND--Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions--misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases--have identified for the first time surface features of human prions ...