Researchers led by a team from the University of Bath in the UK have achieved just that in a basic worm model of Parkinson's.

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 ...

A $2.1M NIH grant will allow Priya R. Banerjee to continue research on biomolecular condensates and their role in cancer and ...

Scientists at UCSF identified a key cellular switch that plays a large role in pulmonary fibrosis, and found a way of ...

The first full-length structures of two heat shock chaperone proteins in a complex reveal the key structural region ...

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 ...

All mammals produce a version of the prion protein, but scientists don’t know what it normally does. In an altered form, the prion protein becomes an infectious agent that causes “mad cow disease” and ...