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Three rare, fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases were reported in Hood River County, Oregon. Two people have died. There's ...

In the fight against diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, scientists have long struggled to predict how certain ...

Modern studies of yeast and fungal prions confirm that protein conformations (that is, alterations of cellular components that are distinct from the DNA-based chromosomal genes) can control certain ...

BSE is a disease which affects the nervous system of cattle caused by misfolded proteins known as prions. It's also known as Mad Cow Disease. Humans can become infected with the disease when they eat ...

As the GOP was overtaken gradually by the prion disease it acquired when President Ronald Reagan fed it the monkey brains in the late 1970s—when the party married itself to the rising Christian ...

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“Scent lures derived from cervid urine or glandular materials also have the potential to contain these prions.” ...

It is caused by a prion, an infectious, misfolded protein particle, and is 100-percent fatal. There is no treatment or preventative vaccine for CWD. CWD-infected deer may exhibit signs of weight ...

Certain bacteria and viruses usurp the M cell connection, and prions may do so too. Their passage to humans from tainted food-beef in the case of vCJD, and human flesh decades ago in kuru among the ...

Zombie deer disease is a prion disease that happens when proteins in the body malform, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The malformed proteins slowly move to the ...