Scientists show prions mutate and adapt to host environment
Friday, December 17, 2010 - 10:32
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown that prions, bits of infectious protein that can cause fatal neurodegenerative disease such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease," have the ability to adapt to survive in a new host environment.
