Prion discovery gives clue to control of mass gene expression
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 09:51
in Biology & Nature
The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, misfolded protein - or prion - by University of Illinois at Chicago molecular biologists raises new questions about the roles played by these curious molecules, often associated with degenerative brain diseases like 'mad cow' and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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