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

Aside from testing and surveilling prion disease, an additional aim is to provide accurate information regarding this disease through various outreach efforts. To convey information about prion ...

The center is supported by the CDC and sponsored by the American Association of Neuropathologists. The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources confirms it is closely watching Henderson and Union counties amid ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

In a new study, researchers have also demonstrated that these prions can experimentally transmit the disease to mice.

该研究首次发现了帕金森病（PD）的全新治疗靶点——FAM171A2，并利用基于人工智能的蛋白质结构预测和虚拟筛选技术，成功找到了具有潜在治疗作用的小分子化合物。 这项研究发现的全新治疗靶点和前在治疗药物有望从疾病早期对帕金森病进行干预，延缓疾病进展，结合现有的对症治疗手段，有望实现帕金森病病因治疗与症状缓解的双重突破。

May 17, 2024 — 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 ...

Context: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetically transmitted neurodegenerative prion disease that incurs great suffering and has neither a treatment nor a cure. The clinical literature is ...