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[ad_1] Prions protein expressed in E. coli bacteria. Credit: NIAID. By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are generally discovered, death is imminent and inevitable. But, in a new study, researchers …

[ad_1] Image: Skitterphoto (Pixabay) One of the strangest things that can make us sick – a misfolded protein that destroys the brain, called a prion – is even more frightening than we …