Prions
‘Unsettling’ news: Alzheimer’s could be transmissible
[A] new paper appeared in Nature that seemed to take the evidence for the transmissibility of Alzheimer’s peptides from “circumstantial” to ...
‘Scarier than we knew’: Dementia-causing prions can spread through the eyes
One of the strangest things that can sicken us—a rogue misfolded protein that destroys the brain, known as a prion—is ...