A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...

It is thought the prions that cause BSE in cattle, if transmitted to humans, cause the invariably lethal dementia known as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Despite a low disease prevalence in ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Prion: Infection Prion Protein disrupted the functions of the human brain, turning individuals into wild, aggressive mutants. As part of a special military ...

A new epigenetic editing tool shows promise as a therapy for prion disease. The approach for silencing prion protein (PrP), is both specific and can lead to wide-spread knockdown expression of PrP ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids—deer, elk ...

A prion sickness similar to mad cow is spreading rapidly through North America’s deer and elk populations. A veterinary microbiologist discusses the options for keeping it in check. By James Gaines / ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal ...

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal prion disease that continues to spread in cervid populations across the country. The Missouri Department of Conservation is pausing a controversial aspect of its CWD ...

If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...