Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic ...

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 ...

Approximately two years after establishing a human cerebral organoid system to study Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), National Institutes of Health researchers have further developed the model to ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...

BILLINGS – The infectious agent that causes chronic wasting disease – an always fatal affliction infecting moose, deer and elk – did not infect human neural tissue, a newly published study found.

Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological illness, continues to spread in Minnesota’s deer population. Credit: Creative Commons/Christa R. Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make ...

Wildlife officials in the U.S. and Canada report cases of chronic wasting diseases where it hasn't been detected before.

Researchers reported the death of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease or "zombie deer disease," raising questions about whether the disease may be transmissible to humans ...

An article published this week in the journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted from person to person. Approximately two ...