prions

When you put all these factors together, the chance that currently licensed vaccines contain prions is zero.

Mad-cow Disease 2010

The most remarkable feature of prions is that they are able to replicate themselves without possessing a genome; prions lack hereditary material.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997 - Presentation Speech 1998

Indeed, the story of prions is truly an odyssey that has taken us from heresy to orthodoxy.

Stanley B. Prusiner - Banquet Speech 1998

In an early-stage trial, the prototype, which is 100,000 times more sensitive than previous methods, was able to detect tiny amounts of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease vCJD-causing particles, known as prions, in human blood, the scientists said.

New Test For Human Mad Cow Disease? Catherine Pearson 2011

In an early-stage trial, the prototype, which is 100,000 times more sensitive than previous methods, was able to detect tiny amounts of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease vCJD-causing particles, known as prions, in human blood, the scientists said.

New Test For Human Mad Cow Disease? Catherine Pearson 2011

However, the facts about prion transmission should reassure us that it is essentially impossible for currently licensed vaccines to contain prions.

Mad-cow Disease 2010

Steak, on the other hand, represents only the muscles of cows and, therefore, does not contain prions.

Mad-cow Disease 2010

Then, when further inquiry revealed that BSE was caused by a strange class of misfolded proteins called prions, many of these same politicians had to do a very public about-face, acknowledging that a link with human health might exist.

Role of science in regulation 2009

The proteins called prions, for example, have two stable shapes.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The proteins called prions, for example, have two stable shapes.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

CWD is not caused by bacteria or a virus, but by “prions”: abnormal, transmissible pathogenic agents that are difficult to destroy.

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