A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is ...

After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and ...

Production of abnormally shaped proteins in the brain causes incurable brain diseases such as prion diseases. Normal cellular prion protein is made by most cells in our body, including brain cells, ...

We will also describe the sustained brain-wide suppression of prion protein expression in both ... And you will — I know you’re very aware that in normal people, sorry, people without Fabry ...

Hereditary: Gene mutations that affect normal prion protein production can run in families. If the prion protein gene is changed in a parent’s cells, there is a 50% chance that the changed gene ...

Control mice were instead injected with normal brain homogenate (NBH ... TREM2 may control mechanisms downstream of exposure to prion protein that promote resilience to degenerative changes and ...

It’s now against the law to give a treat to Bruiser the elk and the countless black-tailed deer that live on Whidbey Island, ...

Future work should also focus on understanding the contribution of alternative protein folding in other diseases and in normal cellular functioning. In this article, I review recent data ...