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Editor's note: Robert Zink is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Prion diseases, also referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), occur in humans and animals, primarily affecting the central n

Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND), UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Cal

They developed a sticker-and-spacers model that can predict the phase behavior of PLDs on the basis of their sequence. Science, this issue p.

For the first time since CWD was detected Montana's wild deer population, the fatal neurological illness has turned up in a game farm animal.

Chronic wasting disease remains a leading threat to deer populations, but according to many experts, it might also threaten Minnesota’s deer huntin

She said there are 59 other mule deer cases pending of the 1,500 deers sampled since July 1.

She said there are 59 other mule deer cases pending of the 1,500 deers sampled since July 1.

The DNR says the fatal disease affects the nervous system of deer and other hooved animals in Wisconsin.

The EU Joint Programme is announcing the effort which is looking to find new ways to treat Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia; Parkins

He replaced MSNBC's Claire McCaskill, who was a nominal Democrat, because Missouri is one of those states that has steadily lost its mind over

Salaam is one of the Central Park Five – group of five teenagers who were wrongly convicted in 1989 of raping a white woman.

MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) — A corrections officer has been charged with sneaking synthetic marijuana and tobacco into a Missouri prion.

So far, CWD has not shown the ability to transmit to humans.

While fibromas captured the most recent headlines, chronic wasting disease has been in the news much more regularly over the past several years.

Traditionally, always fatal TSE brain diseases have been considered to be the result of a deformed protein called a prion and studied as such.

CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The neurological franchise of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an emerging infectious prion disorder that is spreading rapidly in wild populations of cervids in North America.

Javaris Wardlow, 29, pled guilty to one count of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Conspiracy (R.I.C.O.

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are neurodegenerative diseases caused by the misfolding and aggregation of prion protein (PrP) 1,2,3.

Prion diseases are a unique, infectious, neurodegenerative disorders that can affect animals and humans.

Soluble oligomeric species of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide exhibit pronounced neurotoxic effects in Alzheimer's disease.

CWD, which is caused by a rogue protein, called a prion, that basically turns the brain of infected animals into a sponge, remains at a low prevale