In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report ...

A fter silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid ...

An American woman passed away from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. She likely contracted it from contaminated growth hormone ...

Production of abnormally shaped proteins in the brain causes incurable brain diseases such as prion diseases. Normal cellular prion protein is made by most cells in our body, including brain cells, ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has adopted new regulations prohibiting the feeding of deer, elk and moose statewide, effective last Friday. This decision comes as a precautionary ...

A 58-year-old woman died of a rare prion disease, iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, nearly five decades after receiving ...

We will also describe the sustained brain-wide suppression of prion protein expression in both ... And you will — I know you’re very aware that in normal people, sorry, people without Fabry ...

Hereditary: Gene mutations that affect normal prion protein production can run in families. If the prion protein gene is changed in a parent’s cells, there is a 50% chance that the changed gene ...