An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you respond to disease. A new study from scientists at The Hospital for Sick ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The Province of Manitoba has launched an online interactive tool to provide hunters and landowners with real-time access to ...

Despite the lack of CWD in northwest Wisconsin, sampling your kill can help the DNR catch cases early if they pop up.

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

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called ‘zombie deer disease,’ was first identified in Colorado in 1967. Since its ...

The case of a teen who was dismembered, and thrown into a dumpster near downtown Tucson shook the entire southern Arizona ...

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 ...