Learn how prions can turn the body’s own proteins into a threat, and how studying this group of diseases could help us better ...
Eating humans may seem calorie-efficient, but researchers warn it poses high infection risks, including prion diseases, ...
Of the 11,000 people belonging to this Papuan community, around 200 died each year. One in every ten people in the tribe was ...
New research suggests that chronic inflammation caused by a bacterial endotoxin may play a much larger role in mad cow ...
EXCLUSIVE: John Camidge is campaigning to fund crucial research into deadly prion diseases.
Photo Credit: iStock Researchers report that chronic wasting disease, or CWD, can leave behind transmissible prions even in animals that show no visible illness, with those materials later causing ...
Across parts of the United States, deer are being found acting in ways that seem almost impossible to explain. Some stumble ...
Consuming humans is one of the most widespread taboo on Earth. A new study modeling humans as a food source may help explain ...
Science in Poland reports that Michał Misiak of the University of Wrocław and Petr Tureček of Charles University developed a ...
A University of Calgary study published in Science Advances this month found that chronic wasting disease can spread silently ...
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced that the first participant has been dosed in the Phase 1-2 ASCEND study of ION337, an investigational RNA-targeted medicine for people living ...
Deer feeding bans are no longer just a wildlife policy fight. They have become a cultural argument over ethics, disease, ...