MADISON - Chronic wasting disease continues to spread and increase ... It is caused by an abnormal prion, or protein. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform ...

“The detection of this isolated case of atypical BSE shows that the UK’s surveillance programme is working well. There is no risk to the public, as the animal’s carcass will have been destroyed and no ...

A long road is ahead for the Rock County deer farm where chronic wasting disease was detected.  Wisconsin State Veterinarian ...

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection has confirmed that a Rock County deer farm has tested ...

Prion-like proteins can propagate across species, potentially contributing to disease. Here the gut microbiome was analyzed ...

Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection confirmed on Thursday that a deer at a deer farm in Wisconsin tested positive for ...

New research in Wildlife Monographs provides extensive details into the movement of white-tailed deer, with implications for ...

"However, a human variant of chronic wasting disease has never been documented, and prion disease was excluded in the 11 autopsy cases, which included the 12F10 clone of antiprion protein antibody ...

Telomerase is a telomere-specific DNA polymerase consisting of protein and RNA components ... based flow cytometry assay that allows detection of intranuclear hTERT while maintaining identifiable ...