Scientists at Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern ...

The Hood River County Health Department confirmed April 14 that two people have died from a mad cow-like illness called ...

A new population genetics analysis of human prion gene evolution contradicts a 2003 Science paper that claimed commonplace cannibalism among prehistoric humans shaped evolution of the prion gene. In ...

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that Alzheimer’s can spread through medical procedures used today. He also conceded ...

Dr. Yee's group published the first crystal structure of the human prion protein, whose conformational transformation to a pathogenic form is believed to be important in an intriguing family of ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rare brain disorder caused by infectious proteins called prions, which causes rapid, progressive ...

Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

For decades there has been concern that CWD could move into human populations through the ingestion of contaminated meat. That’s because in the 1980s, a prion disease in sheep, known as scrapies ...

Experts in prion diseases are worried that new strains of the disease could cause the disease to spread into other wildlife, livestock and possibly even humans. Jacob W. Frank/National Park ...