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Good news for prions?
Email: Brendan A Maher - bmaher@the-scientist.com News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20031229-02
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Since their discovery in 1982, prions have been mostly associated with deadly and devastating neurodegenerative disorders—notably variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Nevertheless, some maintain that the mechanism by which prions change their shape and aggregate might be put to good use in biological systems. In back-to-back papers in the December 26 issue of Cell, researchers ascribe prion-like properties to an elegant mechanism involved in maintaining memory.
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