• prion

    definition

    A prion is…

    Infectious abnormal variant of a protein which proliferates inside a host by forcing normal proteins of the same type to assume the abnormal form. Prion diseases include bovine spongiform encelphalopathy (BSE) in cows, scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob-disease in humans.

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