Prions

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Science

 

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Leroy W

 

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December 3, 2013

 

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University

 

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A

 

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4 / 1113

 

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Organisms are infectious, proteins are not. Or, at least, they never used to be. Prions entered the public's consciousness during the mad cow epidemic that hitEngland in 1986. For decades, however, scientists had searched for unusual, atypical infectious agents that they suspected caused some puzzling diseases that could not be linked to any of the "regular" infectious organisms...
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One possibility was that slow viruses-viruses that spent decades wreaking havoc in their hosts-might be the culprits, and these putative viruses were not only leisurely about multiplying but also hard to isolate. Now researchers are coming around, although reluctantly, to accepting the shocking fact that naked proteins can be infectious...
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