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| rdfs:comment | - A prion is a type of infectious particle.
- You see this? This is...A PRION. Or a car. (is crushed by a Prion) I'm okay!
- Prions are a type of disease causing agent which consist of a protein which can cause other similar proteins to take it's shape. As such, they can make copies of themselves without the need for DNA, as is the case with bacteria and parasites, or the RNA used by many viruses. They were first theorized in the 1960s to explain certain types of brain altering diseases which could not be traced to any other cause. Their existence was finally proved in 1982 and won the Nobel Prize for their discoverer Stanley B. Prusiner in 1997.
- A prion was an infectious microscopic particle composed only of proteins. Naturally occurring prions were responsible for several diseases in plants and animals. In 2373, Julian Bashir was studying prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters. Early that year Bashir and Jake Sisko attended a conference where he said "prion replication could be inhibited by quantum resonance effects." (DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong") He would later explain his research to his mother, explaining that he was "working on two studies of prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters." A project which she felt he could do on Earth (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume") By the end of the year, he would explain to Jake and Nog, who wondered if he would rather be doing something else, he stated that that was the fi
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| abstract | - Prions are a type of disease causing agent which consist of a protein which can cause other similar proteins to take it's shape. As such, they can make copies of themselves without the need for DNA, as is the case with bacteria and parasites, or the RNA used by many viruses. They were first theorized in the 1960s to explain certain types of brain altering diseases which could not be traced to any other cause. Their existence was finally proved in 1982 and won the Nobel Prize for their discoverer Stanley B. Prusiner in 1997. Prion diseases can be transmitted from person-to-person or have a genetic cause, but they are all very rare, terminal and difficult to contract. The three human diseases that have been proved to be caused by prions are:
* Creutzfelt-Jakob disease, a brain wasting disease, which can apparently be contracted by eating meat contaminated with brain prions from Mad Cow Disease or Scrapie (found in sheep).
* Kuru, or laughing sickness, known only in New Guinea among peoples who eat the brains of their enemies.
* Fatal familial insomnia, a genetic illness that causes intractable insomnia.
- A prion is a type of infectious particle.
- A prion was an infectious microscopic particle composed only of proteins. Naturally occurring prions were responsible for several diseases in plants and animals. In 2373, Julian Bashir was studying prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters. Early that year Bashir and Jake Sisko attended a conference where he said "prion replication could be inhibited by quantum resonance effects." (DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong") He would later explain his research to his mother, explaining that he was "working on two studies of prion replication in ganglionic cell clusters." A project which she felt he could do on Earth (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume") By the end of the year, he would explain to Jake and Nog, who wondered if he would rather be doing something else, he stated that that was the first chance he had to get any research done on his prion project in five months, and that "you couldn't drag me away from here." (DS9: "In the Cards") The same year, Hagath suggested the use of artificial prions, or likewise a mutagenic retrovirus, as a biogenic weapon, for killing up to 28 million of General Nassuc's species. (DS9: "Business as Usual") According to the script for "Business as Usual", prion was pronounced as "PREE-on". [1]
- You see this? This is...A PRION. Or a car. (is crushed by a Prion) I'm okay!
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