Background Mpox emerged as a significant global public health concern during the 2022–2023 outbreak, impacting populations in ...

Prions are best described as misfolded proteins with an ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the ...

A public meeting will be held Feb. 27 to discuss the impacts of the discovery of chronic wasting disease in two deer in ...

The incurable disease was first detected in Louisiana in 2022. With no vaccine, Louisiana has worked with hunters to track ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new area. The adult male deers who tested positive were in Luzerne County and ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state Department of Agriculture announced Friday two deer have tested positive for ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

Chronic wasting disease has been prevalent in various cervid species across the United States and other countries since the ...

It has been published in the journal Nature Communications and is the result of an integrated analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data of human microglia across six pathologies: Alzheimer's Disease ...

Meanwhile, on Jan. 6, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first human death from bird flu in the U.S., in Louisiana. Kimberly Dodd, dean of Michigan State University ...

don't infect human brain tissue, according to Science News. The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD ...

"This is significant because if the disease enters food systems involving pork and venison, the prion proteins cannot be destroyed and could prove fatal to humans." CWD is invariably fatal.