the most common but still very rare prion disease in humans. According to the report, the man had a friend at the same hunting lodge who had also recently died of CJD. And both men had reportedly ...

While prion disorders like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are vanishingly rare in humans, studying these conditions could provide important insights into more common diseases that involve protein ...

Prion diseases—including variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease—arise through an accumulation of misfolded, self-replicating proteins in the brain that ...

Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of brain cancer, is one of the greatest challenges for medicine, both ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion ... against the disease. "We realized it was this golden opportunity to use human genetics ...