Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal ...

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

"If they can get infected, surely it's possible domestic ... It's caused by abnormal prion proteins that damage the brain and nervous system, leading to behavioural changes resembling zombie ...

Since the incubation time of the infection — the time from ... do not show symptoms are actually harboring the brain-destroying infectious prions. It used to be that prion diseases were ...

The case was confirmed by the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which works in collaboration with ...

Researchers are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans ...

During the archery season in September, a hunter killed a young buck just west of U.S. Highway 63 between Houston and Licking ...

Cooking infected meat does not eliminate the danger, as the harmful proteins, known as prions, are resistant to heat and may even become more concentrated during the cooking process. CWD is caused by ...

Researchers find that microglia function differently in males versus females, potentially having broad implications for how neurological diseases are studied.