Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes of Health researchers have further developed the model to ...

Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic ...

CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven. Reading time 3 minutes A new study might point to the first signs ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning ...

BILLINGS – The infectious agent that causes chronic wasting disease – an always fatal affliction infecting moose, deer and elk – did not infect human neural tissue, a newly published study found.

Researchers reported the death of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease or "zombie deer disease," raising questions about whether the disease may be transmissible to humans ...

The threat of so-called “mad cow disease” has all but faded from the collective memory, after its appearance in U.K. cattle in 1986. Human deaths from the scourge, caused by eating contaminated meat, ...

An article published this week in the journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted from person to person. Approximately two ...