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Anwar Ibrahim: UMNO dapat penyakit “mad-cow” sejak 9 Januari!
Monday January 30th 2012, 12:55 pm

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Prions enter stealth mode in the spleen, causing silent infections | Not Exactly Rocket Science
Monday January 30th 2012, 10:06 am

There’s something unfeasibly sinister about prions. These infectious entities are incredibly simple, but they can cause fatal and untreatable diseases like mad cow disease, CJD, and others. Prions are malformed versions of a protein called PrP. Like all other proteins, they’re made of chains of amino acids that fold into complex shapes. Prions fold incorrectly, [...] [News Source]