Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain by Jay Ingram, Lin Tang

Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Jay Ingram, Lin Tang

296 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced
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Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challen...

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