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

Figure 1: FACS analysis of spleen cells from BM-grafted uninfected mice, stained with PrP-specific antibody (open histograms) or unstained (shaded histograms). Figure 2: Confocal analysis of ...

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 ...

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

Correspondence to Professor Giovanna R Mallucci, MRC Toxicology Unit, Hodgkin Building, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, Leicester LE1 9EH, UK; grm7{at}le.ac.uk ...

Contribution from the Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Via Nello Carrara ...

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, ...

FAA confirmed another brief radio outage occurred between air traffic controllers and aircraft operating in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration ...

The CSF cell count, 14-3-3 protein detection and S100B ... sCJD and 19% of the non-CJD cases had normal imaging (table 4A). Generalised atrophy was less common in the patients with sCJD (40%) than in ...

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