A total of three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and incurable brain condition, have been detected in Hood River ...

In this essay, I will use the term prion instead of agent to denote the infectious particle that causes these diseases. The "protein-only" hypothesis is a controversial hypothesis that describes ...

Prion diseases are characterized by abnormal folding of the ... that mimics some of the underlying pathophysiology. While genetic factors can increase or decrease the risk of common neurodegenerative ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rare brain disorder caused by infectious proteins called prions, which causes rapid, progressive ...

Knight says that the method of transmission that Collinge identified is “extremely unusual,” and there’s no evidence that ...

which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly progressive dementia—particularly autoimmune forms of dementia and rapidly progressive forms of Alzheimer's disease. "Rapidly ...

The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) is the only Center of its kind in the U.S., which coordinates autopsies and neuropathologic examinations of suspected prion disease ...

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

May 17, 2024 — A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD ...

Oregon's Hood River County is grappling with a rare brain disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which creates holes in ...

and variant CJD (vCJD), which is believed to be caused by exposure to the same prion that causes mad cow disease. There are no vaccines or treatments for CJD, which ... Lab safety rules dictate that ...