Researchers are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans ...

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

A buck harvested in Mecosta County has been identified with chronic wasting disease, the Michigan Department of Natural ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

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

Chronic Wasting Disease is a fatal neurological disease affecting hoofed animals. Idaho just received its second case from a ...

The "Prion Disease Market Assessment: Epidemiology, Treatment Landscape, Unmet Needs, Emerging Therapies, and Value & Access" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This Prion ...

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

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

A lipid anchor on nerve cell membranes stabilizes prion proteins (PrPC) and prevents their pathological aggregation into forms linked to prion diseases.

"Prion disease has a lot of different origins—some are genetic, some occur spontaneously, and others stem from infections—but we believe this base editing strategy can be applied to all of ...