Study offers evidence that spongiform brain diseases are caused by aberrant protein

Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 14:14 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have determined how a normal protein can be converted into a prion, an infectious agent that causes fatal brain diseases in humans and mammals.

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