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Prions

The Florida panther’s population reached a dangerously low number of only 30 panthers in the 1970s and 1980s, which led to inbreeding and producing offspring with genetic problems. Photo credit: Adobe Stock

Panthers Show Resilience Against Emerging Brain Disease Threat

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans
A wildlife camera captures deer practicing allogrooming — grooming one another to get places that they can’t reach on their own. During allogrooming, deer may eat ticks that contain CWD-infested blood. Submitted photo

Tick-Borne Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Examined in New Study

Categories Life & Non-humans

Down syndrome, like Alzheimer’s, is a double-prion disorder

Categories Brain & Behavior

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