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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a deer in Carbon County for the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced a CWD-positive deer has been detected in Carbon County. The deer, an adult male, was detected in Packer Township, Carbon County. This detection is the first ...

CWD is an always-fatal neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. The disease is a ... and is similar to scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...