The name prion was coined in 1981 by Dr. Stanley Prusiner to identify the agents that cause a novel type of fatal brain diseases. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), sheep ...

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 ...

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

CWD is an always-fatal neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The disease is a ... and is similar to scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

Now we all, including humans, have a normal form of the prion protein in our body, as do, you know, cattle and sheep and goats and the deer and the elk, etc. And then there’s something ...