Proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – study
Y'all, please never post <i>university press releases about single scientific studies</i>.  They are the worst thing.  Every major human problem has been declared solved by one of them.  They are even worse than posting single scientific study papers themselves at the time of publication, and that's still pretty bad, because of the overwhelming incentive to create exciting studies that are wrong, and our current inability to notice the same due to limitations of peer review in catching results that were created by some form of chance.<p>This result looks very exciting and if it replicates and is built upon in five years' time then we can all talk about it then, you know?<p>I note that Science Translational Medicine's impact factor is not awesome.  But even that doesn't mean much to me: lately it feels like _Science_ and _Nature_ are in fact <i>especially</i> likely to collect results that are very exciting and also wrong, because they feel like they're the best journals so their results should be surprising.