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 ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of the most mysterious neurological disorders known to medicine. As recent discussions have spotlighted its damage to the brain, perhaps the most central question that ...

The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD has now reached ...

Iowa is shifting focus from eradicating chronic wasting disease to instead “mitigating its spread and managing its impacts.” ...

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

Chronic wasting disease may have been identified in B.C.'s Okanagan, potentially marking the spread of the fatal prion ...

Since 2013, chronic wasting disease has been detected in more than 500 deer across 31 Iowa counties. The Iowa Department of ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...