What are prions? The word prion was coined in 1982 by neurologist Dr Stanley Prusiner, and is used to describe a proteinaceous infectious agent that is not inactivated or destroyed by procedures that modify nucleic acids such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleicacid (RNA)...
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MAD COW DISEASE ALSO KNOWN AS BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY IN CATTLE (BSE) OR CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE (CJD) IN HUMANS ARE DISEASES CAUSED BY PRIONS BSE (sometimes referred to as "mad cow disease
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