There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that ...

Prions are self-propagating clumps of misfolded protein. At least one prion is transmissible to other prion proteins. The result is a disease similar to viral infection, causing transmissible ...

California scientists say they have created the first synthetic version of a rogue protein called a prion and used it to give mice a brain-destroying infection, evidence important to settling any ...

Scientists have used a tool called cryo-electron microscopy to get an unprecedented and detailed look at infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. These abnormal proteins have been linked to a ...

Scott Napper, a biochemist and vaccinologist at the University of Saskatchewan, can easily envision humanity’s ultimate doomsday disease. The scourge would spread fast, but the progression of illness ...

Prion diseases are a group of different conditions that affect your brain and nervous system. They can cause severe dementia or problems with body control that get worse very quickly. They're rare -- ...