Watching an older loved one's mind fade is often a slow, challenging experience for everyone involved. However, sometimes the memory loss can happen fast, leaving little time for answers.

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60 percent. The work demonstrates that ...

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60%. There is currently no cure for ...

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60 percent. There is currently no cure ...

SCIENTISTS have warned 'zombie deer disease', fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), the condition leaves deer ...

forming long filaments with both proteins in which oxygen cannot reach the active centres of the nitrogenase. As soon as the cells overcome this oxidative stress, the complex dissolves and the ...

Prions are best described as misfolded proteins with an ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the ...

Explorations of toxic protein species via genetic disease ... If so, PrP C contributes to neurotoxicity in prion disease but by uncertain mechnisms.