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

A look back on notable scientific happenings and achievements at UCSB during the 2024-25 school year. On April 15, a furry visitor came to UC Santa Barbara but it wasn’t here for a tour. A black bear ...

It’s now against the law to give a treat to Bruiser the elk and the countless black-tailed deer that live on Whidbey Island, ...

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

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

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

Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression ... which ultimately damage brain health but are difficult to diagnose. When a normal protein encounters the pathological tau fibrils, the ...

Santa Barbara have created the first synthetic fragment of tau protein that acts like a prion. The “mini prion” folds and stacks into strands (or fibrils) of misfolded tau proteins, which then ...

Misfolded, prion-like proteins drive the progression ... which ultimately damage brain health but are difficult to diagnose. When a normal protein encounters the pathological tau fibrils, the ...