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

The Vallabh/Minikel lab at the Broad Institute has selected Argonaut Manufacturing Services, Inc., "Argonaut," as the drug product manufacturer for a therapeutic compound for a potential clinical ...

The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no ...

“The detection of this isolated case of atypical BSE shows that the UK’s surveillance programme is working well. There is no risk to the public, as the animal’s carcass will have been destroyed and no ...

is caused by the misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) and leads to rapid cognitive decline and death. Approximately 500 new cases are diagnosed each year in the United States. The investigational ...

A 58-year-old woman died of a rare prion disease, iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, nearly five decades after receiving ...

However, misfolded proteins that cause further misfolding known as prions can occur and cause ... What scientists don't yet know is why these prion-like misfolds in tau occur, or how they might be ...

Contribution from the Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Via Nello Carrara ...

This exciting new book explores the dark side of the molecular protein assembly bringing an updated view of how failures in the homeostatic mechanisms that efficiently regulate protein folding leads ...