The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance ... Their findings appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. Kuru, a prion disease similar to CJD in humans and BSE in animals ...

Research has also shown that cases of prion-induced disease can stem from human cannibalism. Papua New Guinea was afflicted by an epidemic neurodegenerative disease called kuru which was spread ...

The characteristic diagnostic signs of prion disease in humans and animals, such as changes in behavior and mobility, result from advanced neurodegeneration for which there is currently no cure.

It is now clear that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as 'mad cow disease', is ... like infectious prions. Given the unique characteristics of prions, new strategies must be ...

Thus, the PrP protein is required for prions to replicate and cause disease. The protein-only hypothesis remains controversial because it breaks new conceptual ground. Those who have worked in ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...