CWD has not yet crossed to humans, but some infectious disease experts are concerned that it may.

Stress granules are membraneless protein- and mRNA-rich organelles that form in response to perturbations in environmental conditions.

A high degree of uncertainty surrounds the issue of the prion disease risk associated with fertility drugs derived from urine, gonadotropins.

Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative diseases that affect numerous mammal species and include kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal fa

Wenquan Zou, MD, PhD, an expert in prion and degenerative neurological diseases, has received a two-year grant for developing diagnostic tools for

If you're not a hunter, you may not know what chronic wasting disease is.

Prion proteins are known to cause scrapie – a neurodegenerative condition. It is capable of debilitating damage to the nervous system.

The news was a surprise to some experts, including Neil Cashman, a University of British Columbia medical professor who specializes in neurodegener

The news was a surprise to some experts, including Neil Cashman, a University of British Columbia medical professor who specializes in neurodegener

Since Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) first emerged in captive deer in Colorado in the 1960s, the prion disease has spread to at least 26 states, thr

A team of national and state experts in public health, wildlife diseases, prion research and laboratory diagnosis is calling for a comprehensive na

The disease was called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) because there were holes in the brain where prion protein cells became folded, had li

In a remarkable decision, a juvenile justice board (JJB) in Bihar sentenced a minor to three years of imprisonment under IPC section 376 and Protec

Atop an oscillating tray inside a temperature-controlled incubator at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, clusters of human brain cells ranging in size

The prion protein functions as a carrier for delivering Aβ to exosomes during Alzheimer’s disease.

According to the IDSA Foundation, growing evidence has indicated that a bacterium, virus, fungi, parasite or prion may cause Alzheimer’s disease.

CWD is a fatal contagious prion disease of deer, elk and other hoofed ruminant specifies.

“There is history of a prion disease already crossing species from animals to humans in terms of bovine spongiform encephalitis (Mad Cow Disease) t

The body, comprised of renowned specialists in neurodegenerative disease and experts in neurotoxic, prion-like misfolded proteins, guides developme

The global prion disease diagnostics market will likely expand at a moderate pace in the near future on the back of technological progress in the d

CJD is a fatal neurodegenerative brain disease of humans believed to be caused by infectious prion protein.

WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists have used human skin cells to create what they believe is the first cerebral organoid system, or &qu

It’s not caused by a virus, bacterium or fungus, but instead by an entirely different pathogen: a type of protein called a prion.

Professor Glenn Telling, director of the Prion Research Center at CSU (left), talks with Jifeng Bian, research assistant, about their chronic wasti