Angus King of Maine is desperate to wake people up to the fact that President Trump is putting our Constitution in the wood ...

After a devastating family loss, Chicago Med character Caitlin Lenox remains haunted by GSS, a rare, genetic prion disease.

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active ...

Zombie deer disease, or chronic wasting disease, is a fatal condition that affects animals with hooves like deer and elk.

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

The findings provide further evidence for a prion-like paradigm wherein protein aggregation occurs in a templated fashion. This breakthrough provides the research field with a powerful way to model ...

Accumulation of a protein called TDP-43 is a key feature of ALS and frontotemporal dementia. In a newly published study, ...

On Jan. 31, the 30th anniversary of wolves getting reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park, congressional representatives ...

Dysfunctional Family. A family tree of tau folds now incorporates two new structures—P301L, P301T (bottom)—and fills in ...

LDWF has reported a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula Parish, marking the first positive outside of Tensas Parish and bringing the total ...

It is caused by a prion, an infectious, misfolded protein particle, and is 100% fatal in affected deer after an indeterminate incubation period. There is no treatment or preventative vaccine for CWD.

Multicellular existence is collaborative. Our cells are in constant communication, checking out one another’s state and sending signals to modulate or moderate the behaviour of neighbours. The usual ...