The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, misfolded protein -- or prion -- by University of Illinois at Chicago molecular biologists raises new questions about the roles played by ...

Transmissible forms of neurodegenerative diseases that are always fatal sounds terrifying, and almost like science fiction. Unfortunately, prion disorders like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are very ...

Judd Aiken was pretty sure he knew what happens when prions, the misshapen proteins that cause chronic wasting disease in deer, bind to soil. The prions must become less infectious, he figured. But an ...

Researchers at Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute report that a prion-like protein, encoded by a gene called TIA1, helps the brain keep fearful memories in check ...

The discovery of a new yeast prion may provide clues on whether prions, like proteins, can affect mass activation of gene expression. The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, ...