It's Elementary My Dear Bloggers: Prions
Firstly, the term prion comes from the words protein and infection, which already gives some insight into what they’re all about. So basically, it’s an infectious agent made up of proteins in misfolded form.
Put in much simpler terms, prions are a microorganism, much like a virus or bacteria,…
TheDaylyConcept: unlike viruses, Prions reproduce without genes.
a prion is an infectious entity and pathogen. proteins, as you may know (or not), are made of chains of amino-acids. composition dictates how these chains bend and curl, and form dictates function. now, a prion is a mal-formed protein, which causes other, similar proteins similarly denature: thus…
