What’s widely known as “zombie deer disease” is gradually increasing in the Beehive State. The official name is Chronic ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) detected in Hood River County in eight months Two people have died; one case ...

When it comes to fear, the human imagination can come up with some wild stuff—but real life often proves even scarier. In a recent Reddit thread, users were asked: "What's the most terrifying thing ...

As public interest in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) grows in the United States, strict controls on who is allowed to study it could needlessly slow US research on the disease, contend some ...

Besides, breakthroughs in lab testing don’t always carry over to humans. Scientists have proposed a radical dual solution: artificially-grown human bodies incapable of feeling pain. Stem-cell ...

Chimpanzees, our distant cousins, wear visages built for strength. Modern humans, by contrast, have modest and meek faces — small, flat, and delicate. In a new study, researchers have uncovered ...

It works by blocking the production of a specific protein, which leads to reduced toxic disease byproducts in the human body. But when mosquitoes drink blood with nitisinone, they quickly die.

The low-key charms of the coming-of-age story “Holy Cow” emerge gradually but steadily ... sees this loveliness and how pretty the cows look on the misty fields. Like all the performers ...

Scientists have described the spread as a "slow-motion disaster in the making," but are now warning that the always-fatal disease could "spillover" to humans if more is not done. CWD is more commonly ...

It’s in those days of quiet blood-thirst that ticks pass along bacteria that causes conditions like Lyme disease ... the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s defenses and pass along ...