The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases

The Power of Prions

The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Other Diseases

2024 • 192 pages

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"This popular-level book accessibly and vividly describes the story of prion science, from the discovery that these abnormally folded proteins can spark self-templating chain reactions and thus cause various neurodegenerative diseases to scientists' deepening understanding of how prions play essential roles in the body and perhaps even in the origin and evolution of life"--


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