They’re like an origami figure folded wrongly that causes any properly folded origami figures to become misfolded when it comes in contact with them.
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TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Fucking prions. When I first learned about them in high school they really made me freak out. They are like the new game+ final boss of things fucking with things. Like how can they even infect other things, fucking mangled and misfolded looking ass
deranger@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Definitely don’t think about the overpopulation of deer, the spread of CWD, the fact that deer are commonly found in corn fields, the US loves corn, and the plants can take up prions from the soil.
That interspecies barrier seems like it’s the only thing between us and a huge disaster.
…umn.edu/…/plants-can-take-cwd-causing-prions-soi…
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Im glad barriers never break and we will be fine forever.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Prions don’t evolve, so in this case it’s mostly true.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, there are some theories of CWD causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Disease in unusually young patients and there are some concerns/doubts about the actual barrier believed to protect us, so that’s fun.