Maryland DNR has detected chronic wasting disease in a Howard Co. deer for the 1st time. A DNR expert spoke with Patch about ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 50 Years After An Infected Injection, Prions Rapidly Take Over A Woman's Brain The patient received an infected injection when she was a child nearly 50 years earlier. Tom Hale.

Prions are best described as misfolded proteins with an ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein. Let's dive into the many fatal neurodegenerative ...

The Power of Prions Michel Brahic Princeton Univ., $24.95. A mysterious neurological disease was killing women and children in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Prions are biological anomalies – self-replicating, not-alive little particles that can misfold into an unstoppable juggernaut of fatal disease. Prions don't contain genes, and yet they make ...