New research provides hope that prion disease — a handful of rare, invariably fatal disorders caused by misfolded proteins in the brain — may, in the not-too-distant future, have a treatment if not a cure.

From Eric Vallabh Minikel, Sonia M. Vallabh, David R. Liu and colleagues. Co-first authors Meirui An and Jessie R. Davis. Read more at the Harvard Gazette.