Prusiner’s struggle behind the “birth” of Prion
Proteinaceous Infectious Particle, commonly abbreviated as ‘prion’, is now known as the cause of a number of diseases in animals and human. The examples of such animal diseases include Scrapie in sheep, Transmissible Encephalopathy of mink, Chronic Wasting Disease of cervids, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy of cattle. In human, it
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