Redefining what it means to be a prion
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 06:56
in Biology & Nature
Whitehead Institute researchers have quintupled the number of identifiable prion proteins in yeast and have further clarified the role prions play in the inheritance of both beneficial and detrimental traits...
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