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 ...

Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern ...

Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After earning her doctorate, Moreno pursued a fellowship at the Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit with neuroscientist Giovanna Mallucci, where she was introduced to the fascinating field of ...

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been reported in Hood River County, Oregon, including two deaths. The CDC and state health officials are now investigating the rare brain disorder, which ...

and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. In TSEs the normal cellular prion protein (PrP C) is transformed into an infectious disease-associated isoform, PrP Sc — a potential target for ...