A deer shot by a hunter in South Georgia has tested positive for Chronic-Wasting Disease (CWD), the state Department of ...

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...

CWD is spread by infectious proteins known as prions, which trigger abnormal protein folding throughout the body, especially in the central nervous system. Those proteins then clump up in the brain ...

Dublin, Jan. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Prion Disease Market Assessment: Epidemiology, Treatment Landscape, Unmet Needs, Emerging Therapies, and Value & Access" report has been added to ...

Dublin, Jan. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Prion Disease Market Assessment: Epidemiology, Treatment Landscape, Unmet Needs, Emerging Therapies, and Value & Access" report has been added to ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal ...

this has been termed a 'subversion of function'. If so, PrP C contributes to neurotoxicity in prion disease but by uncertain mechnisms.

CHIPPEWA FALLS — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed Wednesday the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Chippewa County, which will lead ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum discovered that a lipid anchor on nerve cell membranes stabilizes prion protein folding, preventing harmful aggregation linked to prion diseases. Their in vitro ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) received confirmation of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) following testing of an adult domestic cow elk that died at a captive facility in Jefferson ...