Beyond all academic curiosity, such an understanding would be instrumental for assessing the risk to humans of prion diseases spreading among animals. An important defining trait of strains is ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

A different kind of protein called prion causes the usually healthy ... raised concerns among researchers that the fatal disease may spread to humans someday. According to the reports, lethargy ...

this has been termed a 'subversion of function'. If so, PrP C contributes to neurotoxicity in prion disease but by uncertain mechnisms.

"Scrapie" is the old Scottish shepherds' name for a disease of their sheep which has been known for several centuries. It is the original example of a group of diseases, known as the ...

And, because of the prion disease time lag, no one will know for sure if it has jumped to humans until people start dying. Dr. Michael Osterholm from the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and ...

This fatal neurological disease, a prion-based affliction similar to mad cow disease, causes infected animals to waste away, lose coordination, and display eerie, zombie-like symptoms. But could this ...

It’s also theoretically possible for humans to contract prion diseases by eating meat processed on contaminated equipment, ...

All specimens and/or MRI disks sent to the center must accompany a completed Test Request Form and/or an MRI Interpretation Request Form. Prion diseases are rare, fatal brain disorders in humans and ...

Alzheimer’s and diseases like variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... there’s still a lot of work to be done in looking at levels of prions in the human system and how these may alter as we age.” ...

This page is a brief resource for families affected by prion diseases. We understand the challenges and concerns that come with caring for a loved one with this rare and complex condition. This page ...