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Scientists Watched Human Dementia Proteins Spread Through Mouse Brains Like Prions

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Prions are one of nature's cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need...

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  1. Nature

    Harmful tau spreads like self-propagating prion proteins (opens Nature)

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    Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02778-w Structural studies support the idea that fibrillized tau protein, a feature of neurodegenerative disorders, acts as a prion-like template to induce misfolding in healthy tau.

  2. Nature

    Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain (opens Nature)

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    Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11061-x Mouse experiments show that Alzheimer’s disease and corticobasal degeneration tau filaments retain their distinct structures during templated seeding, supporting strain-specific tau propagation and disease modelling.

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    Scientists Watched Human Dementia Proteins Spread Through Mouse Brains Like Prions (opens Science Alert)

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    Prions are one of nature's cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need...

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