Prions
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have been a mistery for scientists from the day they where
discovered. act like viruses but they are not. Their structure and
chemistry are unknown. They are believed to be proteins but that is yet to be
completely proved.
Prion stands for “proteinaceous infectious particles”. Prions are kn ....
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.... and ribonucleic acid DNA
and RNA respectively. This is what has given science a great deal of doubt as
this would give the dogma of the beginning of live a radical turn.
Prions have been in research for many years with experiments like the
one done by Stanley B. Pruiser and his team of scientists at the School of
Medicine of the University of California at San Francisco in which a study was
carried out on mice to see if he was able to purify the scrapie agent ,another
prion disease, in mice ....
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