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

which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of dementia and rapidly progressive forms of Alzheimer's disease. "Rapidly ...

While prion disorders like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are vanishingly rare in humans, studying these conditions could provide important insights into more common diseases that involve protein ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both ...

Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves through the brain, spine and eventually kills the animal. CWD prions, a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally ...

New detection at the Horse Creek Feedground, which has already struggled with disease, suggests that the new epidemic is ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has approved new rules to help prevent the spread of chronic wasting ...

Director Kelly Susewind has made decisions on proposed rules designed to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Washington.

An always-fatal disease that wildlife biologists expect will diminish northwest Wyoming’s elk population for decades has ...