Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven. reading time 3 minutes A new study might point to the first signs ...

August 24, 2010 — A novel sporadic prion protein disease, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), with distinct features has been described as the first new prion disease since sporadic ...

Between COVID, HIV, Dengue, Ebola, and emerging flu variants, the last thing the world needs is another type of pathogen, let alone with no treatment or cure. But, although rare, prion diseases, such ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

Covid was associated with a case of prion disease, a type of “rapidly progressive dementia” in a new paper from the American Journal of Case Reports. The case shares the details of what happened to a ...

CHARM – a novel molecular tool – can turn off disease-causing genes, such as the prion protein gene. Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have collaborated with the Whitehead ...

Drug development is typically slow: the pipeline from basic research discoveries that provide the basis for a new drug to clinical trials to production of a widely available medicine can take decades.

In May of 2024, Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other ...

Officials won't know whether the deer was ill until Kentucky Fish and Wildlife biologists test tissue samples.

Why did we fund this project? Comments from members of our Research Network: "At last this is a piece of work targeting that crucial stage ... long before any clinical symptoms will be present and ...