Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

The treatment, which uses base editing to make a single-letter change in DNA, reduced levels of the disease-causing prion protein in the brain by as much as 60 percent. The work demonstrates that ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

During the archery season in September, a hunter killed a young buck just west of U.S. Highway 63 between Houston and Licking ...

The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could someday jump to humans, but many hunters are ...

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

Western blot testing confirmed the presence of CWD prions in the brain, lymph nodes, and nerves in reindeer, but only in the ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum discovered that a lipid anchor on nerve cell membranes stabilizes prion protein folding ...