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 ...

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

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

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

Led by a team at the Broad Institute, the new gene therapy aims to address the root cause of prion disease by using the CHARM (Coupled Histone tail for Autoinhibition Release of Methyltransferase) ...

The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...

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 ...

Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, ...