from prions—which may have been caught from prion-infected sheep. A few years later, we learned that people could catch a ...

For example, prions originating from sheep appear to be, as far as we know, innocuous for humans, whereas BSE prions are highly promiscuous and can cause disease in many different hosts ...

We’re still unearthing new things about prions, including the possible origins of the initial BSE outbreaks (maybe it was ...

The Luzerne County detections are 40 miles from the nearest wild CWD detection. They will ultimately result in disease ...

How it came into existence is unknown, but a potential explanation is that deer were being held in a pen that had infected sheep, and the prion made its jump to deer. From there, the disease ...

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

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

Any good drama has a number of key ingredients: strong characters, intrigue, unexpected plot twists and high stakes. The prion story has these aplenty and, as recounted by Maxime Schwartz, makes a ...