Infectious, Test Tube-produced Prions Can Jump The 'Species Barrier' (Science Daily)

5 September 2008, 5:30 am

Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species.... read more

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