Brian Vastag » Basic biology http://brianvastag.net Science Journalist Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:50:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Beneficial Side of Prions http://brianvastag.net/2009/04/the-beneficial-side-of-prions/ http://brianvastag.net/2009/04/the-beneficial-side-of-prions/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:05:34 +0000 Brian http://brianvastag.net/?p=42 Nature.]]> naturenews Prions, the mis-folded proteins best known for causing diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, also help yeast survive and may even drive evolution. [READ STORY]

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