Discovery Illuminates How Brain Cells Die In Prion Diseases
Researchers show how toxic aggregates are formed inside brain cells, and how to block the cell-killing process—which may also be at work in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. 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 …