Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the 'species barr...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 23:00

(Cell Press) Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species.


 

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