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

The Zombie Deer Disease gets its eerie nickname from the way it affects infected animals, causing them to exhibit zombie-like ...

Prions are an infectious protein usually referring to the protein in mammals called prion (PrP), but the term prions or scrapie protein can be generically applied to any protein that exhibits the ...

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 ...

Donations are used to create plasma-derived medicines to treat conditions such as immune deficiencies, bleeding disorders and severe burns.

A farm-raised deer in Eau Claire County tested positive for chronic wasting disease according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday. The DNR was recently notified by the ...

Prions are pathogens that only consist of a protein, which clumps together in the brain and other body parts of the animal. Eventually, these leave holes in the brain, causing what is known as ...

Prion Protein (PrP) is a normal protein found in healthy cells, though its exact role is not yet clear. However, when this protein changes shape into a misfolded form, it becomes infectious and is ...

Prion diseases comprise several conditions. A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally. Prion diseases can affect both humans and animals. They are ...

The Center, through the Autopsy Coordination Program, offers financial and logistical assistance for a brain-only autopsy, to families with loved ones suffering from a suspected prion disease. This ...

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