Patients may also experience: Involuntary muscle movements Confusion Difficulty walking Mood changes Prion diseases, because they cause spongelike holes in brain tissue, are also called transmissible ...

“The patient’s history ... Gizmodo reached out to experts at Case Western University’s National Prion Disease Pathology ...

There is currently no cure for prion disease, and the new approach could be an important step towards treatments that prevent the disease or slow its progression in patients who have already ...

While several drugs have been tried in small numbers of patients ... in prion propagation – seeded aggregation of misfolded host proteins – are of far wider significance, not least in understanding ...

There is currently no cure for prion disease, and the new approach could be an important step towards treatments that prevent the disease or slow its progression in patients who have already ...

Neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease characterised by eosinophilic hyaline intranuclear inclusions. MRI observation in NIID patients may be useful.

Viralgen and Axovia Therapeutics are partnering to develop and manufacture a gene therapy for the treatment of retinal ...

Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition. The treatment, which uses ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50% in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative ...