In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of ...

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 ...

A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical. Reading time 5 minutes Earlier this year, a team of scientists ...

Across parts of the United States, deer are being found acting in ways that seem almost impossible to explain. Some stumble ...

Lenox lost her mother after she was diagnosed with an extremely rare prion disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS). The day her mother died, Lenox's father died by suicide, leaving Lenox to ...

EXCLUSIVE: John Camidge is campaigning to fund crucial research into deadly prion diseases.

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 ...

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50% in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles, or prions, comprise a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that take their name from ...