Science news articles about 'infectious proteins'

Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion ...

... of X-ray crystallography and nucleic magnetic resonance spectroscopy to solve the structure using non-infectious protein samples. A report describing the findings is published this week in the ...

... prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab. Prions are the infectious proteins responsible for human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, ...

... that the immune system begins to overreact to the organism’s own structures or to exogenous non-infectious proteins, i.e. allergens, when it does not have to work hard enough to protect the ...

Infectious proteins known as prions have been identified as the cause of "mad cow" disease (BSE). The culprits ... took on the prion-forming domain of the fungal protein HET-s. At a pH value of 7¡ªunder ...

... testing programs for older animals. Diagnostic testing currently involves the detection of a misfolded "infectious" protein, or prion, in post-mortem brain tissue. BSE has caused significant changes ...