In honour of the late Professor Michael Alpers, the Australian Government has today announced the launch of the Alpers Award ...

Amyloid plaques are also linked to other movement-related diseases like kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Researchers believe that viruses may trigger the buildup of harmful proteins ...

Viruses like Covid and HSV-1 may trigger neurodegenerative diseases by causing protein accumulation in the brain, leading to ...

Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by accumulation of abnormally folded prion protein. sCJD can have a long asymptomatic incubation period, ...

The COVID pandemic is ongoing, but scientists are on alert for any pathogen that might lead to another global outbreak of disease. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and ...

Cancer rates also fluctuate by jobs: Higher rates of cancer can be found among meat industry and rubber manufacturing workers ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, with 695,000 people dying from heart disease in the United States each year. This accounts for 1 in every 5 deaths, as per the ...

There have been no reported cases of kuru in the UK or the US, as the disease was confined to specific cultural practices in New Guinea. Another brain-folding disease, gerstmann–sträussler ...

Since then, I think it's fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. And then there are the ...

Department of Physiology, Biophysics, and Neuroscience, Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), Mexico City 07360, Mexico Department of Chemistry, Center for Research and Advanced ...

Since then, I think it’s fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big infectious disease – be that a virus, bacterium, fungus or parasite. With COVID in ...