For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has ...

The new gene therapy aims to address the root cause of prion disease by using the CHARM epigenetic editing platform from the Whitehead Institute to target and silence the gene that codes for the ...

Bob Schuh's 'Scoping the Great Outdoors' has news from Manitowoc County Lakes Association, Maribel Sportsman's Club and the ...

Episode 151For the Love of Goats As goat owners, understanding diseases that can affect our herds is crucial for maintaining ...

They now run a lab at the Broad Institute in Boston. By 2024 they had created an editor that, in mice, turns off the prion ...

A fatal disease is spreading amongst Alberta's deer population. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a brain disease that affects ...

As 'zombie deer disease' spreads through Canada, there's still much to learn about CWD and its potential effects on humans.

Brain MRI (Figure 1) revealed a diffusion signal abnormality involving the bilateral caudate heads and putamen, with no cortical changes. Cerebrospinal fuid (CSF) analysis showed 1 cells per μL, ...

Whey protein is a food supplement commonly used by athletes to help boost muscle growth. In addition to improving strength and performance, whey protein is also thought by some to be useful in healing ...

Collagen supplements might make your skin more elastic – but the evidence is weak. Collagen is hugely hyped. This protein, which is important to the structure of skin and joints, has been presented as ...

tested a gene therapy to replace SCN1B to increase the expression of beta-1 protein, which is necessary for the regulation of sodium channels in the brain. Administering the therapy to newborn ...

The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...