A fatal disease among deer that may cause abnormal behavior including a lack of fear of humans is inching closer to the ...

CWD is also categorized as a prion disease, meaning it affects the brain’s prion proteins. When abnormal versions of these proteins infect the animal, they cause normal prion proteins to fold ...

Prion diseases are characterized by abnormal folding of the host’s naturally-occurring prion protein, leading to rapid neurodegeneration. They can be genetic, sporadic—without known cause—or acquired, ...

Prion replication in cell lines in vitro is sensitive to antibodies directed against the normal and abnormal isoforms of the prion protein. Numerous strategies and potential targets for treating ...

Three broad neuropathogenic mechanisms are proposed: loss of normal PrP function, abnormal PrP toxicity and ... If so, PrP C contributes to neurotoxicity in prion disease but by uncertain mechnisms.

The zombie deer disease has made its way to Georgia and its spread is concerning for animal experts and hunters alike.

SCIENTISTS have warned 'zombie deer disease', fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), the condition leaves deer ...

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 ...

Prions are proteins that act like "seeds" of disease, explained Live Science, causing healthy proteins to "fold in abnormal, harmful ways". The new findings indicate parallels between the ...

Researchers have found out new information about how neuro degenerative diseases develop and how the process can be possibly slowed. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories of National ...