Dec. 22, 2021 —Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates of the prion protein, PrP. How these aggregates form ...
Nov. 15, 2021 —Prions, aggregates implicated in neurological diseases, may also have an important function in helping regulate the transcription of messenger RNA in memory ...
Mar. 15, 2021 —Researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and ...
Nov. 17, 2020 —Alzheimer's disease develops over decades. It begins with a fatal chain reaction in which masses of misfolded beta-amyloid proteins are produced that in the end literally flood the brain. Researchers ...
Oct. 19, 2020 —Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is an important cause of dementia. However, long-term trends in CJD-associated mortality and incidence rates in Japan have not ...