In Alzheimer’s, some research suggests that a buildup of prion proteins in the brain may contribute to the devastating loss of short- and long-term memory. “Long-term memory shapes our personality, ...

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

The Pan American Health Organization said it will provide countries in the Americas with affordable access to respiratory ...

Diagnostics manufacturer Veterinary Medical Research & Development (VMRD) in Pullman, WA, provides state-of-the-art test reagents for detection of abnormal prions associated with Chronic Wasting ...

Context: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a genetically transmitted neurodegenerative prion disease that incurs great ... paper describes the efforts of 1 patient (with the rapid-course Met ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been identified at a Kerr County, Texas, deer farm, the county's first confirmed detection, ...

The unusually young age at which these patients developed symptoms strongly suggests that ... the lead author of the research and Director of the UCL Institute of Prion Diseases, clarified, "There is ...

Not all the amyloid diseases are due to prion-like proteins ... and some part of the public and the patients who tend to mistrust the way it’s communicated. And I don’t want to criticize ...

Air quality in many countries has vastly improved since the days of coal fired power stations and steam trains but, paradoxically, air pollutants are increasingly implicated in disease causation. A ...

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