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Scientists ID secret to infectious protein
05-10-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Scientists at MIT and the Whitehead Institute have discovered small but critical regions within prions, infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease or its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, through the study of nontoxic yeast prions.
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