Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

But sometimes, prions can also be transmitted from one individual to another (infamously, the prion disease kuru was spread through cannibalism), or even between two different species of animal.

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 ...

because the hormone infusions they received contained infectious proteins called prions that cause severe abnormalities in the brain. Prions are proteins that act like "seeds" of 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 ...

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