Arkeus is pleased to announce the integration of its Warden Hyperspectral Optical Radar (HSOR) with the UAVE Prion Mk3 D15, a UK designed and manufactured, long-endurance uncrewed aerial vehicle. This ...

The B.C. government has announced hunters will be able to harvest an additional deer this season in the Kootenays, in an effort to increase testing for chronic wasting disease. It comes after two new ...

Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins—a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the ...

Pennsylvania’s big push to overturn the state’s Sunday hunting ban took a last-minute detour into a world legislators likely never envisioned visiting: the scientific consensus on deer urine as a ...

They’re not alive, but they destroy with terrifying precision. Prions are misfolded proteins behind some of the most horrifying and incurable diseases known to medicine. Here’s how they work—and why ...

Gerstmann-Strässler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) is a rare, inherited brain disorder. It can cause cognitive difficulties, involuntary muscle movements, and difficulty speaking. Share on Pinterest ...

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The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report. Reading time 3 minutes The grim reaper can sometimes take decades to ...

Prions transmit their abnormally folded shape onto other proteins. Researchers designed a synthetic fragment of the tau protein that exhibits prion-like behavior. Misfolded tau proteins are the ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Two people have died and a third person is showing ...

A cluster of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases have been reported out of Hood River County, Ore. The disease is caused by misfolded proteins, or prions, which are also the cause of a disease in deer ...