from prions—which may have been caught from prion-infected sheep. A few years later, we learned that people could catch a ...

We’re still unearthing new things about prions, including the possible origins of the initial BSE outbreaks (maybe it was ...

For example, prions originating from sheep appear to be, as far as we know, innocuous for humans, whereas BSE prions are highly promiscuous and can cause disease in many different hosts ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

Any good drama has a number of key ingredients: strong characters, intrigue, unexpected plot twists and high stakes. The prion story has these aplenty and, as recounted by Maxime Schwartz, makes a ...