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The story of the revolutionary science that is unraveling the mysteries of mad cow and other fatal brain diseases Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution.?They challenge the very foundations of biology:?A disease-causing entity with no genetic material at all??A molecule capable of infecting, multiplying, and killing? This book recounts the?birth of prion science and the imaginative detective work scientists have undertaken?as they?struggle to find the answers to devastating brain diseases from mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to Parkinson?s, Alzheimer?s, Lou Gehrig?s, and others.?As in each of his best-selling books, Jay Ingram here makes complex scientific concepts accessible and shows how little-known events may have profound significance. He describes the development of prion science .

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