Some of the most important proteins were follistatin and cathepsin D. These proteins were found at higher levels in people ...

Researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins to convert to a diseased form, causing conditions like CJD and Kuru. For the first time, researchers have pinpointed what causes normal proteins ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...

Scientists can also make normal proteins change into twisted proteins in the lab — but so far they haven't been able to show that those proteins can cause infections, Chesebro said. Chesebro said he's ...

The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But to the human eye, proteins that are ...

A serum immunofixation test measures specific proteins in your blood. It helps to identify certain illnesses that are otherwise hard to detect, such as multiple myeloma, a blood cancer. The test is ...

New research from the University of Cincinnati bolsters a hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease is caused by a decline in levels of a specific protein, contrary to a prevailing theory that has been ...

The scientists' new 'binder-tag' technique allows researchers to pinpoint and track proteins that are in a desired shape or 'conformation,' and to do so in real time inside living cells. The ...

The video shows the mechanism by which the aggregated and infectious form of the prion protein (red) induces its physiological counterpart (blue) to change conformation. Once the normal form is ...

Four of the proteins identified as measurably decreased and validated by immunoblot analysis were two light harvesting complex binding proteins 1 and 3, Rubisco activase, and carbonic anhydrase. The ...