The patient was unknowingly infected with an abnormal protein that causes a rare, fatal neurological disease with no treatment.

Since the mid-1800s, human activities have rapidly facilitated the spread of rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV), a pathogen that ...

Prions, mysterious shape-shifting proteins, can lead to brain disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and ...

"However, a human variant of chronic wasting disease has never been documented, and prion disease was excluded in the 11 autopsy cases, which included the 12F10 clone of antiprion protein antibody ...

The team is now pursuing efforts to launch a clinical trial using this compound. Prion disease, a rare but devastating neurodegenerative condition, is caused by the misfolding of the prion protein ...

The well-studied NF-κB signaling system is a key mediator of the inflammatory response. Large-scale sequencing studies in ...

The disease is not contagious; instead, it spreads when humans and other animals inhale tiny spores from the fungus Coccidioides that are hidden in dust particles and carried in the air.

How to know what’s right for you Knowing when and where dogs got sick with Valley fever can help pinpoint the geographical areas where humans might also contract the disease, according to a ...