Prion proteins appear to be the key culprit in the loss of memory in mice with brains riddled with plaques associated with Alzheimer’s Disease, Yale scientists report. The findings reported in the ...

This is a molecule that is directly linked to the expression of the cellular prion protein found on the surface of nerve cells. The study, led by the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, opens ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both because it is difficult to treat and because of its high mortality rate. In ...

New research from David Westaway, PhD, of the University of Alberta and Jiri Safar, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has uncovered a quality control mechanism in brain cells that ...

Protein aggregation is typical of various neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. A research team has now used new in vitro and ...

A study from Bochum describes a mammal-specific domain of the prion protein and offers new approaches for research into neurodegenerative diseases. At first, they cause memory deficits and ...

Researchers in a laboratory established to find a treatment for prion diseases are announcing that they have made a step forward in mice. Collaborating with a genome-editing lab, they have developed a ...

BRISBANE, Calif. & CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO), a genomic medicine company, and Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: VYGR), today announced the parties ...

New research from David Westaway, director of the Center for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta, and Jiri Safar, co-director of the National Prion Disease Pathology ...