Though research is being done in skeletal cells, these agents are known to develop in brain, spinal, and lymphatic tissue.
Several fungal varieties of these particles afflict yeasts and are helpful in mammalian research. These particles are responsible for a disease that eventually leads to complete sleeplessness, fatal familial insomnia. Though research is being done in skeletal cells, these agents are known to develop in brain, spinal, and lymphatic tissue. They convert into pathogens despite being the only known infective agents that lack genetic material. For 10 points, name these proteins which can be harmful when they fold, causing such transmissible spongiform encephalopathies as Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease.
Several fungal varieties of these particles afflict yeasts and are helpful in mammalian research.
{prions} [accept {proteinaceous infective particles}]