The researchers discovered a marked drop in the amount of the normal prion protein in eight different types of prion diseases. Strikingly, this drop occurred months or years before the animal models ...

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven.

What Every Pathologist Needs to Know - Prion Diseases by Mark Cohen, M.D., for the 2020 American Association of Neuropathologists meeting regarding what every neuropathologist should know about prion ...

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

The most famous type of prion disease, known colloquially as mad cow disease, is infectious, but other forms of prion disease can occur spontaneously or be caused by faulty prion protein genes.

Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy is a newly identified sporadic prion protein disease, only the second since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was first reported in the 1920s.

It is caused by misshapen prion proteins in the brain, which can deform other proteins and lead to loss of function as well as the formation of toxic aggregates. There are multiple types of prion ...

The most common cause of inherited prion diseases is the E200K mutation of the prion protein (PrP). It is often thought that this mutation causes disease by making PrP more susceptible to ...

In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of ...

Covid was associated with a case of prion disease, a type of “rapidly progressive dementia” in a new paper from the American Journal of Case Reports. The case shares the details of what ...

Study: Ticks harbor and excrete chronic wasting disease prions. Image Credit: KPixMining/Shutterstock.com Background Natural means of the spread of CWD among free-roaming cervids have not been ...