Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...

Eating humans may seem calorie-efficient, but researchers warn it poses high infection risks, including prion diseases, ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human prion disease, also called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), results from the misfolding of a normal prion protein—an essential protein present in everyone. The misfolded form of the protein, the ...

When Julie Moreno arrived at Texas A&M University as a first-generation student in 2000, she wanted to work in veterinary medicine. But the opportunity to work in a research laboratory during her time ...

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 ...

Prion diseases are a group of rare infectious neurodegenerative diseases caused by modifications in the prion protein (PrP) that prompt it to misfold. 1 Invariably fatal, prion disease can be genetic, ...