Ohio hunters have discovered 24 white-tailed deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as 'zombie disease' ...

Jim Abrams offers an update on the status and spread of chronic wasting disease in Ohio's white-tailed deer herds and beyond.

The human version of mad cow is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a grim illness that spongifies the brain and is invariably fatal ... the deadly prions reside in central nervous system tissue ...

In a recent case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found Bartonella henselae, Babesia odocoilei and ...

A University of Cincinnati study found machine learning models can aid in the automation and detection of abnormal brain ...

New research reveals that visceral adipose tissue helps maintain brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels, but this ...

Notably, microglia spatially associated with amyloid plaques exhibited increased expression of TREM2 and ApoE compared to ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

Genetic Mutations Linked to Toxin Exposure Found in Firefighters' Brain Tumors Mar. 10, 2025 — In a study comparing the glioma tumors of firefighters and non-fighters, researchers found a ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Scientists used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used to treat ALS, to detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage, offering a clear path to ...