The Other Terrifying Deer Disease Creeping Across the US
A silent but deadly epidemic is creeping through North America and scientists are sounding the alarm.
Tag: prions
Inside Kuru: the strange brain-eating disease caused by human cannibalism
How a strange illness connected to consuming human flesh led to two Nobel Prizes.
Lifeless prions are capable of evolution
Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have determined for the first time that prions, which are just bits of infectious ...
