In the latest measles developments, health officials in Washington’s Whatcom County reported their first measles patients of ...

The $12 million will help state and tribal governments, research institutions, and universities to combat chronic wasting ...

When proteins are made in a cell, they start out as strings of amino acids, which have to be folded into the correct, 3D ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has added eight counties to a deer feeding and attractant ban to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease spread, after CWD was detected ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has added eight counties to a deer feeding and attractant ban to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease spread, after CWD was detected ...

The cofactor preferences for in vitro propagation of the protease-resistant isoforms of the prion protein (PrPSc) from various rodent species were investigated using the serial protein misfolding ...

Composting may serve as a practical and economical means of disposing of specified risk materials (SRM) or animal mortalities potentially infected with prion diseases (transmissible spongiform ...

Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, "mad cow disease" in cattle, yet they can ...