Oregon agriculture officials have confirmed the presence of a fatal disease in a slaughtered sheep, marking the first confirmed case in the United States in more than five years. The illness, known as ...

Classical scrapie is a degenerative prion disease found in sheep and goats. While a significant concern for livestock, it's ...

A recent study has drawn attention after it detected some limited interspecies transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) ...

In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of ...

Thirteen years ago, she received a genetic test result that gave her a 50–50 chance of developing fatal genetic prion disease ...

Close-up on three ropes and marine knots isolated on white background. Each is photographed separately. Prion diseases are rare but deadly neurodegenerative brain diseases that result from misfolding ...

A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical. Reading time 5 minutes Earlier this year, a team of scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how prions can turn the body’s own proteins into a threat, and how studying this group of diseases could help us better understand dementia.