Tag Archives: Prions

Between 1986 and 1998, more than 180,000 cattle in the United Kingdom were infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy; otherwise known as mad cow disease. Despite ...

Scientists have recently identified specific areas of the brain containing a gene often associated with a number of neurological disorders including Lou Gehrig’s disease and ...

A new study published online by Nature, the international weekly journal of science, suggests that a long-standing cannibalistic ritual among the Fore people of Papua New ...

For the first time in six years, mad cow disease has been found in the United States. Officials say the disease was discovered before any ...

As we’ve previously reported, a prion is an infectious agent implicated in a number of deadly diseases in mammals, like mad cow disease.  All known ...

We’ve already discussed the possibility that endospores could be at the root of a coming zombie sickness (see: Zombie Endospores from Hell), but public health ...