In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

Sporadic CJD happens when healthy proteins in the human ... Prof John Collinge, director of the Medical Research Council Prion Unit at University College London, who led the development of the ...

He leaves behind wife Sylvia and four children. His daughter – Clara Baselga-Garriga – has set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for CJD research.

Rather, the research examined eight individuals ... eventually prohibited after it was linked to fatalities from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)-a type of prion disease characterized by the ...