The Gettysburg National Military Park detected Chronic Wasting Disease in the park's deer population for the first time.

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called prions, these molecules are responsible for conditions such as bovine ...

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 ...

Prion disease is a rapidly fatal and currently untreatable neurodegenerative disease. Although rare, with roughly 300 cases reported each year in the United States, it typically causes rapid ...

Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic ...

In some Montana hunting districts, up to one-third of animals have contracted chronic wasting disease, the fatal, neurodegenerative disorder that’s driving down deer and elk populations in other ...

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven. Reading time 3 minutes A new study might point to the first signs ...

A new epigenetic editing tool shows promise as a therapy for prion disease. The approach for silencing prion protein (PrP), is both specific and can lead to wide-spread knockdown expression of PrP ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

Surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain have been identified for the first time, which may provide key information into treatments of neurodegenerative diseases ...

A professor of biochemistry and molecular biology report an unanticipated role for prion nucleation seeds that enhances their ability to appear and resist curing. A molecular biologist at the ...