'Good' prion-like proteins boost immune response

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 01:00 in Health & Medicine

(Medical Xpress) -- A person's ability to battle viruses at the cellular level remarkably resembles the way deadly infectious agents called prions misfold and cluster native proteins to cause disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.

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