Tech & Science First synthetic ‘mini prion’ shows how protein misfolding multiplies Scientists plan to explore potential applications, including the development of new diagnostic and ...

Nearly 50 Years After An Infected Injection, Prions Rapidly Take Over A Woman's Brain The patient received an infected injection when she was a child nearly 50 years earlier.

Prion diseases are also found in sheep–– scrapie––and in deer–– chronic wasting disease––the latter causing continued hunting precautions, hunter fears and even carcass dumping ...

POWELL — Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and even humans from direct contact with or environmental ...

A January research paper shared widely on social media falsely claims COVID-19 vaccines can cause prion and other neurodegenerative diseases.

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Researchers have developed CHARM, an epigenetic editor that can silence prion protein genes with the potential to treat prion diseases.

Researchers in a laboratory established to find a treatment for prion diseases are announcing that they have made a step forward in mice. Collaborating with a genome-editing lab, they have ...

A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical.

Prions are the abnormal, pathogenic agents that are transmissible and are able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins. Prion disease is an umbrella term for a group of ...

A recent report published in the medical journal Neurology suggests that two hunters contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal neurological disorder, after eating venison obtained from deer inf… ...

A new report calls for further study into a possible link between chronic wasting disease in deer and a rare and deadly brain disease in humans.