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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Fatal Flaws How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Author: Jay Ingram
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 challenge the very foundations of biology: A disease-causing entity with no genetic material at all? A mole...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300189896
ISBN-10: 0300189893
Publication Date: 3/19/2013
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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