Tag: SCRAPIE
RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW DISEASE AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA
RUMINANTS GONE WILD: MAD COW AND CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE IN AMERICA There’s this little protein thingy called a PRION. …the “most intriguing, unsolved puzzle in modern biology” (Phillips, 1991). Why because they aren’t even alive by any stretch of the imagination. At least with a virus you can pretend-even though purified it’s a crystalline powder-it’s alive and […]