A quaint, peaceful farming settlement, the people of Laluni Creek are as resilient as the crops they produce — adapting and ...

The Nobel Prize is the most significant recognition of a scientist’s work, but it also shines a spotlight that follows the ...

Human examples include Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (CJD), Kuru, fatal familial insomnia and Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome (GSS). CJD is subdivided into genetic, sporadic, iatrogenic and variant CJD.

Kuru, otherwise known as the "laughing disease" or "laughing death", imposed a significant threat when it appeared among the Fore people Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s.

Kuru Kuru Sushi’s Aiea location, located in the Pearl Kai Shopping Center, will close April 5.

Infectious diseases make up three of the ten slots in the World Health Organization's top 10 causes of death and account for ...

The Guardian published an article about our new genetic analysis of the populations of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea in collaboration with the PNG Institute of Medical Research. The study ...

Curcumin nanoparticles in prion disease Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles that cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease, Kuru Disease, and fatal familial insomnia in humans.

Kuru is a type of prion disease, which includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy—commonly known as mad cow disease—and its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which sickened humans who consumed ...