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What is a prion?

Healthkeep @Healthkeep (996) • Israel 7 Mar 07

Prion is an infectious protein. Unlike a virus or a microbe, it has no nucleic acids in it - no DNA or RNA! One of the most famouse diseases it causes is "the mad cow disease" which is a variant of the Creutzfeld-Jakob...

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