A silent but deadly epidemic is creeping through North America and scientists are sounding the alarm.

It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies" (TSE), sometimes known as the "prion" diseases. The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob ...

Prion diseases collectively are called spongiform encephalopathies, causing sponge-like vacuoles in the brain. Symptoms include dementia and ataxia. What do normal PrPs do? That function is still ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...

The dominant camp asserts that "Mad Cow Disease" and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (T.S.E.s) are caused by a new kind of infectious agent: a form of protein called a prion.

After many years of controversies (some of which are still raging), prions are now believed to be the infectious agents responsible for the transmission of TSEs. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] They appear to be ...

Almost two decades have passed since Stanley Prusiner proposed that the transmissible agent causing spongiform encephalopathies consists of a misfolded protein — but the biology of prion ...

According to Leon Thacker, director of the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University, mad cow disease is a popular term given to a disease of cattle known as bovine spongiform ...

Among the animal spongiform encephalopathies -- scrapies, transmissible mink encephalopathy, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) -- BSE is certainly the disease that has wreaked the most ...