Chronic wasting disease is contagious and relentless. There is no cure, no way to test living animals, and once infections are introduced into wild populations, there is no realistic way to stop them ...
It is thought the prions that cause BSE in cattle, if transmitted to humans, cause the invariably lethal dementia known as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Despite a low disease prevalence in ...
Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...
(NEXSTAR) – 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 ...
Recent research led by the University of Alberta in Canada challenges the belief that BSE in cattle is caused only by ...
Rather than being genetic or acquired, Johnston's CJD developed when normal prions in her brain spontaneously began misfolding. The abnormal prions accumulated rather than being shed, triggering ...
In the decades since prions were discovered by Stanley Prusiner, scientists have become comfortable with the idea that they cause disease. But how an infectious agent made solely of protein can ...
HHMI researchers have shown that mutations in yeast prions can affect their ability to infect different strains of yeast. Two important questions face biologists studying the infectious proteins ...
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