by Gary Chandler | Apr 23, 2013 | Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
The Growing Prion Spectrum Researchers at Yale University have completed a molecular model for Alzheimer’s disease by identifying a protein that plays a key role in its onset. The study showed that when the activity of this protein is blocked by an existing...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 19, 2009 | Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
Prions Cause Neurodegenerative Disease Scientists have discovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s disease and mad cow disease. Both diseases involve something called a prion protein. (Both diseases are deadly and contagious.) The finding, which appears in...
