If you’re familiar with the word prion than you probably associate it with dysfunction and disease. Prions infamously cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease, as well ...

State wildlife agencies that once leaned on aggressive deer culls to stop chronic wasting disease are now reassessing their ...

Please can you give a brief introduction to prions and the neurodegenerative diseases they cause? The prion diseases were originally discovered by Dr Gajdusek and Dr Gibbs. The first disease ...

Dirt may help scientists answer a question that has baffled them for decades: How does chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk spread from animal to animal? MADISON - Dirt may help scientists ...

A new test may detect the presence of abnormal proteins indicative of a deadly prion disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). By adapting an established blood test for variant CJD, ...

Prion diseases aren't common, but they are scary. Incurable and inevitably fatal, they can be either genetic or infectious, although the latter only occurs via contact with infected tissue. However, a ...

I was at my laboratory bench one morning in 1980 when a colleague walked in and declared that he had identified the cause of scrapie, a mysterious and fatal infection that leaves tiny holes in the ...

Special proteins known as prions, which are perhaps best known as the agents of mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases, can also serve as an important source of beneficial variation in nature.

One of the strangest things that can sicken us—a rogue misfolded protein that destroys the brain, known as a prion—is even scarier than we knew. Researchers were able to find the prions responsible ...