{"id":244696,"date":"2026-09-30T21:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-protein-just-behaved-exactly-like-a-prion-in-mouse-brains"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:05:34","slug":"alzheimers-protein-just-behaved-exactly-like-a-prion-in-mouse-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-protein-just-behaved-exactly-like-a-prion-in-mouse-brains","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Protein Just Behaved Exactly Like a Prion in Mouse Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-protein-just-behaved-exactly-like-a-prion-in-mouse-brains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prions are one of nature\u2019s cruelest tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Proteins are chains of amino acids that need to fold in very specific ways \u2013 a process that does not always work as intended. Your body is pretty good at correcting these errors \u2013 but every so often, a prion emerges.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a crooked, non-functional protein. It\u2019s a gnarly shape that shares instructions for how it got that way, while resisting the body\u2019s clean-up mechanisms. As these instructions spread through the brain, the result is rapid, progressive degeneration and, ultimately, death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prions are one of nature\u2019s cruelest tricks. Proteins are chains of amino acids that need to fold in very specific ways \u2013 a process that does not always work as intended. Your body is pretty good at correcting these errors \u2013 but every so often, a prion emerges. This isn\u2019t just a crooked, non-functional protein. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}