Secondly, PrP (sometimes called prion protein) , is associated with the agent somehow - but what does it do? This debate matters because no life form, including any virus, has been found which ...

Infectious prions are also much more difficult to detect in the body than a virus; currently diagnoses of vCJD are confirmed after death by looking at brain tissue. Presently, only strategies such ...

In the nearly 15 years I’ve spent reporting on CWD throughout the West, few topics seem to deflate researchers and the public more than the prion’s ability to remain infectious in soil. Most of us can ...