Small but mighty, viroids are disease-causing infectious strands of RNA that can self replicate. Unlike viruses, they don't possess any proteins of their own.

Viroids are the world's smallest infectious pathogen. Unlike viruses, they do not carry any proteins of their own. Despite this, they can still cause serious disease in plants. How?

Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions don't contain genes, and yet they make ...

Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles, formed when normal proteins misfold and clump together. Biochemists Byron Caughey of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Peter ...

Atomic-level imaging of lethal prions provide sharpened focus for potential treatments Date: August 25, 2021 Source: Case Western Reserve University Summary: The highest-ever resolution imaging of ...