Wildlife officials in the U.S. and Canada report cases of chronic wasting diseases where it hasn't been detected before.

Chronic wasting disease regulations can feel like a trapdoor under your hunting plans, stable one week and completely ...

Prion infections lead to invariably fatal diseases of the CNS, including Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), and scrapie in sheep. There have been ...

Prions—the infectious proteins that cause illnesses such as mad cow disease, scrapie, chronic wasting disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease—can pass through the digestive systems of crows, new ...

Scientists have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of several people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The scientists also exposed healthy mice to skin extracts from two CJD ...

The virus causing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, has spread far more quickly than any other coronavirus in recorded history. Why is it so contagious? One possibility is that its spike ...

Close-up on three ropes and marine knots isolated on white background. Each is photographed separately. Prion diseases are rare but deadly neurodegenerative brain diseases that result from misfolding ...

The misfolding of proteins and their subsequent deposition as amyloid in peripheral nerves lead to sensory and autonomic neuropathy A new hereditary form of neuropathy, prion protein (PrP) systemic ...

A new study has reported that a now-banned medical procedure may have unintentionally infected patients with Alzheimer’s disease-causing proteins. Between 1959 and 1985, patients with short stature ...

Researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded treatment and a cure. Case Western ...