Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced the release of Prion Biology, available on its website in hardcover, paperback, and ebook formats. Prions are best ...

Prions are highly robust and infectious proteins, most notable for their central role in bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow disease. But very little is known about how prions ...

The first outward sign of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) usually crops up in one spot: a little trouble swallowing, or weakness in one leg or one arm. Then it spreads. Scientists now suspect the ...

At times, to understand something well, it is useful to rebuild it from scratch. It happens with prions as well: in collaboration with the BESTA Institute in Milan, the Laboratory of Prion Biology at ...

A new study has uncovered a molecular mechanism in the prion protein that may explain why nerve cells degenerate in prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The findings, which appear ...

If you’re familiar with the word prion than you probably associate it with dysfunction and disease. Prions infamously cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, as well ...

It is known that improperly folded proteins, called prion proteins, can cause serious detrimental health effects known as prion diseases. Examples include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru in humans, ...

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