Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...

Groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine Prion diseases are rare but deadly neurodegenerative brain ...

Rather than being genetic or acquired, Johnston's CJD developed when normal prions in her brain spontaneously began ...

Immunization with a non-toxic genetically engineered prion, a protein that causes a group of fatal brain diseases, including mad cow disease, delayed the onset of brain disease in mice, according to a ...

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

La Jolla, Calif.- The mysterious, highly infectious prions, which cause the severe destruction of the brain that characterizes "mad cow disease" and several human brain degenerative disorders, can be ...

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) at Case Western Reserve University will receive up to $20 million in funding as part of a grant renewal from the Centers for Disease ...

Chronic wasting disease is contagious and relentless. There is no cure, no way to test living animals, and once infections are introduced into wild populations, there is no realistic way to stop them ...

UCSF scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a change in the folded shape of a prion protein changes its infectious properties—including the prion’s ability to jump “species barriers.” ...