Weeks after the first ever detection at a state-run site, two infected cows died at Bondurant’s Dell Creek Feedground ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

Having a word “on the tip of the tongue” has happened to all of us. Behind this everyday phenomenon lie complex brain ...

Researchers are now racing to come up with strategies to at least slow the spread of the disease in deer and reduce the ...

Proteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the ...

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

Several studies have shown how α-synuclein, amyloid-β, tau and other amyloidogenic proteins can act as nucleating particles and thereby share properties with misfolded forms, or strains, of the prion ...

Chronic Wasting Disease is a neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein called a prion and is always fatal for deer and elk. It is simiilar to mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt ...