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| 1 | Prion |
| For the bird called a "prion", see Prion (bird) Prions - short for proteinaceous infectious.... Prions were first hypothesized in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner of UCSF, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1997 for the discovery. Prusiner formed the word "prion" from a ... | |
| 2 | Prion (bird) |
| Prions Scientific classification : Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Procellariiformes Family: Procellariidae Genus: Pachyptila Species Fairy Prion P. turtur Slender-billed Prion P. belcheri Broad-billed Prion P. vittata Antarctic Prion P. v. desolata Salvin's ... | |
| 3 | Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy |
| fuller Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases, are a group of... prion (prion is short for proteinaceous infectious particle). Prion proteins occur in both a normal... disease. The harmless and infectious forms of the prion protein are nearly identical, but the ... | |
| 4 | Genetic material |
| Genetic material is the material used to store genetic information for a living organism. For all currently known living organisms, with the exception of prions, the genetic material is almost exclusively DNA. This is supplemented with cytoplasmic inheritance factors, often proteins. For some ... | |
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| 6 | Fatal familial insomnia |
| Fatal familial insomnia is an autosomal dominant inherited, non-infectious brain disease. It is caused by prions, similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. The same... dementia motor paralysis. As with other prion related diseases, this disease is ultimately fatal and ... | |
| 7 | T-bone steak |
| is because spinal tissue contains nerve cells, and these can experimentally transmit the prion that causes this disease. (Cooking will not destroy prions.) The European concern about steak is less ... | |
| 8 | New Island |
| prions, rockhopper, gentoo and Magellanic penguins, dolphin gulls and black-browed albatrosses ... | |
| 9 | Structural inheritance |
| structural inheritance include yeast prions, and has also been seen in the orientation of cilia. Some ... | |
| 10 | Procellariidae |
| Petrel Pseudobulweria rostrata . The prions, genus Pachyptila . A specialised group of six very... Blue Petrel Halobaena caerula is allied to the prions. The Shearwaters in the genera Calonectris ... | |
| 11 | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
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| 12 | Diving petrel |
| , albatrosses Procellariidae, fulmars, prions, shearwaters, gadfly and other petrels Hydrobatidae ... | |
| 13 | Scrapie |
| believed to be caused by a prion. The name is derived from one of the symptoms of the condition, wherein ... | |
| 14 | Shag rocks |
| on the islands are the eponymous shags, prions and wandering albatrosses. The Shag Rocks were ... | |
| 15 | Sterilisation (microbiology) |
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