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Life sciences/Biochemistry/Biomolecules/Proteins/Prions
The slow slog to reveal the nature of 'slow viruses'
Genetic Risk of Prion Disease Reevaluated, Thanks to Big Data
New results suggest that prion protein mutations differ in how likely they are to cause rare and fatal disorders.