Microbes in the News

Sinister gangs of proteins prowl

Article synopsis:
"Prions are infectious proteins without genes of their own. They may spread disease by converting harmless proteins to their cause."

Article citation:
"A Cult of Proteins," Discover, February 1995, p. 29.

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