What are prions and why are they so hard to kill ?
In: Biology
Prions are wrongly folded proteins. They multiply by folding other neighbouring proteins wrongly too. (And that makes you sick because those proteins won’t do their job anymore)
You can kill (or better destroy, they don’t live) them easily. But you can’t easily distinguish them from normal proteins, so destroying prions without hurting other proteins is very hard.
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