Prion diseases, the frightening neuron-killing disorders that transmit via infectious proteins rather than by viruses or bacteria, rarely jump from one species to another. But just a few amino acids ...

When cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine ...

In a new Viruses study, researchers report the discovery of the Gimso virus, a novel betacoronavirus in a bank vole (Myodes glareolus) from Grimso, Sweden. These findings emphasize the importance of ...

Researchers have discovered that bank voles in southern Sweden (Skåne) carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known ...

Researchers have identified a new coronavirus. Their study of approximately 260 bank voles shows that the virus is well established in Sweden's red-backed voles. Researchers from the Zoonosis Science ...

The bank vole is a small rodent native to northern Europe and Asia, where it inhabits woodland and scrubland habitats at sea level and lower altitudes. This species has a stout, mouse-like appearance ...

Crabapple Island (located in Bełdany Lake, NE Poland) was the site of concurrent study on the reproduction and survival of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis) ...

Habitat fragmentation affects individual movements between favorable resource patches. In many small mammal species, an important intrinsic factor affecting recruitment of young is infanticide, ...

A bank vole in the Sonian Forest in Brussels, Belgium. Love and loss are two of the most fundamental human emotions. But why do we grieve when we lose a partner, and why do some struggle more than ...

Transmission of prions between species is inefficient, and only a small proportion of exposed recipients become sick within their lifetimes. A new study takes a close look at one exception to this ...