Prion disease is a rapidly fatal and currently untreatable neurodegenerative disease. Although rare, with roughly 300 cases reported each year in the United States, it typically causes rapid ...

A new study in Nucleic Acids Research, published by Oxford University Press, suggests a possible effective treatment strategy for patients suffering from prion disease. Prion disease is a rapidly ...

Research led by scientists at the U of T and Caprion Pharmaceuticals have uncovered the basis for a diagnostic, immunotherapy and vaccine, providing a way to detect and treat the brain-wasting damage ...

Mad cow, scrapie and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease are all diseases of the brain that debilitate before they kill, and have no cure, or even many good treatment options beyond supportive care. But now, ...

With funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a group of UW-Madison researchers will investigate what happens if infectious prion proteins - considered the cause of chronic wasting ...

Prion diseases have become the newest target for treatment with RNA interference (RNAi). The gene-silencing technique has been used to prolong the lives of mice infected with scrapie, a disease ...

Researchers have synthesized the first artificial human prion, a dramatic development in efforts to combat a devastating form of brain disease that has so far eluded treatment and a cure. Case Western ...

In the 1980s, a fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle broke out in the U.K. and began spreading in Europe and North America. Some people who ate beef from the ranches that raised the sick cows ...

For years, Sonia Vallabh has been working to save her life. Vallabh has a type of brain illness called a prion disease — specifically, one called fatal familial insomnia. Since the illness killed her ...