CLEVELAND - A new sporadic prion protein disease has been discovered. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr), as it has been named, is the second type of complete sporadic disease to be ...

A female White-tail deer (Florida Wildlife Commission photo by Tim Donovan). Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. During the ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has confirmed a new case of chronic wasting disease in a wild white-tailed deer in Ballard County, marking the third confirmed case ...

Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...

Wildlife officials in the U.S. and Canada report cases of chronic wasting diseases where it hasn't been detected before. Reading time 3 minutes We’re not ending 2025 without a last bit of awful news: ...

Manitoba's Natural Resources and Indigenous Futures has alerted the public of six new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD); ...

Throughout Season 10 of Chicago Med, Dr. Caitlin Lenox (Sarah Ramos) has emerged as one of Gaffney's finest recruits. As she continues to expertly call the shots in the Emergency Department, viewers ...

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.

A new epigenetic editing tool shows promise as a therapy for prion disease. The approach for silencing prion protein (PrP), is both specific and can lead to wide-spread knockdown expression of PrP ...

There are few scientific advances that have had such a dramatic impact on the course of human history as the theory that ...