Defeat/Making a Wish
riding winds aloft | the fell proteins |
'This document describes
infectious agents
which (almost certainly) do not have a nucleic acid genome. It seems that a protein alone is the
infectious agent. The infectious agent has been called a prion. A prion
has been defined as "small proteinaceous infectious particles which
resist inactivation by procedures that modify nucleic acids". The
discovery that proteins alone can transmit an infectious disease has
come as a considerable surprise to the scientific community.'