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 ...

Throughout Season 10 of Chicago Med, Dr. Caitlin Lenox (Sarah Ramos) has emerged as one of Gaffney's finest recruits. As she continues to expertly call the shots in the Emergency Department, viewers ...

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 ...

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 ...

A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...

Five hundred people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick were diagnosed with a "mystery brain disorder" that resembled ...

Canadians originally diagnosed with a mystery brain disease had other, well-known neurologic conditions, cross-sectional data suggested. The study assessed 25 of 222 cases listed in public health ...

Iowa State University researchers have described with single-molecule precision how copper ions cause prion proteins to misfold and seed the misfolding and clumping of nearby prion proteins. The ...

Researchers reported the death of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease or "zombie deer disease," raising questions about whether the disease may be transmissible to humans ...

August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...