Researchers have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD), a universally fatal, degenerative brain disease for which there is no cure. sCJD is one ...

CLEVELAND - Neena Singh, MD, PhD and colleagues at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have identified the first disease-specific biomarker for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) ...

Writing in the November 20 issue of the journal mBio, co-corresponding author Christina J. Sigurdson, DVM, Ph.D., professor of pathology at UC San Diego and UC Davis, and colleagues discovered high ...

Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD) can be transmitted via surgical tools that are contaminated with misfolded infectious prion protein (PrP Sc) during surgeries that involve the CNS. For ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Revisions to diagnostic criteria for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have led to greater accuracy in both ...

Writing in the November 20 issue of the journal mBio, co-corresponding author Christina J. Sigurdson, DVM, PhD, professor of pathology at UC San Diego and UC Davis, and colleagues discovered high ...

This multi-center international study on a large group of patients (436 with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [CJD] versus 141 controls) provides a rationale for the amendment of the clinical diagnostic ...

Ocular tissues tested by real time quaking-induced conversion. [Ryan Kissinger, NIAID] Researchers in the U.S. have found evidence of the infectious agent that causes sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

Symptoms of prion disease can vary widely and often mimic other illnesses. Sporadic CJD presents itself in a variety of ways, though typically looks homogeneous towards the end of the disease duration ...

The eating of BSE-infected meat might cause classical CJD in people, as well as variant CJD, a new mouse study suggests. Classical CJD, also called sporadic CJD (sCJD), is generally believed to ...

Prions are infectious agents that cause invariably fatal brain diseases such as CJD in humans, scrapie in sheep and BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy or ‘mad cow disease’) in cattle. They are a ...