Recent research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease. Called ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by ...

The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

A parasitic brain worm fatal to moose, elk, and caribou has been confirmed in northern Alberta for the first time.

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the ...

A deadly prion disease is taking off at Dell Creek Feedground, and the next four months could be pivotal and a harbinger of ...

Iowa is shifting focus from eradicating chronic wasting disease to instead “mitigating its spread and managing its impacts.” ...

At the home of the English Premier League soccer team Brentford FC, it could even be said the burger is doing better than the ...

Modification of a system for rapid amplification of misfolded prion proteins allows de novo generation of these infectious molecules and provides a glimpse of the diverse range of possible misfolded ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has launched an updated response plan to the disease that includes collaboration ...