Science news articles about 'brain wasting disease'

Researchers in the U.S. have identified the emergence of a new type of brain-wasting disease that resembles Creutzfeld-Jakob, the human form of mad cow disease.

Prairie researchers investigating diseases such as BSE or mad cow disease gained $1.6 million in funding Wednesday.

Mad cow disease may be caused in some cases by a rare genetic mutation that also occurs in humans who have a related brain-wasting disease, U.S. scientists have found.

... France has found six health officials not guilty in the deaths of more than 100 young people who were infected with a brain wasting disease after they were injected with growth hormones in the 1980s.

... scientists proposed a new theory on Wednesday of how Alzheimer's disease kills brain cells they said opens new avenues of research into treatments for the fatal, brain-wasting disease.

... ) - Scientists are unraveling some of the mechanisms behind the plaques in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, offering new leads for drugs to treat the fatal brain-wasting disease.

... have found three new major genetic links to Alzheimer's, affecting up to 20 percent of people with the brain-wasting disease, and said on Sunday it was the most significant such discovery in 15 years.