Fucking prions, man. Scarier than most diseases. Remember kids: in a survival situation it’s okay to eat most of a Long Pig or a cow but don’t eat the brain. You just never know.
CWD
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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weariedfae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’ll eat the brain and nothing else. Don’t tell me what to djsbrhrjdhrb3jurhdbdudbjeje…
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Can someone explain this plz?
Toes@ani.social 7 months ago
Imagine a fundamental building block of life as a gear. Now imagine your brain as a clockwork clock. Now take the diseased prion gear and throw it into your clockwork mind.
Suddenly, that mismatched gear smashes into the other gears. This strips the gears and makes them like the foreign gear and now your mind no longer keeps track of time and many other things.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Great analogy!
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD: Is Chronic Wasting Disease to Blame? (P7-13.002) www.neurology.org/doi/abs/…/WNL.0000000000204407
Deer Are Beta-Testing a Nightmare Disease www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/…/677307/ archive.is/ryj69
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
If i remember right a simplified explanation would be: A protein is a long chain of amino-acids that folds into a specific structure to achieve a certain task(for example stuff like cut a certain bond in a certain molecule). Prion is the exact same chain of amino-acids but it has folded in a wrong configuration thus cannot complete the original function, and even worse it can refold other proteins with the same amino-acid chain to the prion configuration slowly spreading through the body infecting more and more proteins ultimately depriving the body of the ability to do a specific fuction
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Prions ,as explained on a different comment above
Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Cannibalism bad.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Depends on the task. Higher intellects tend to dismiss the simpler work, leaving it for the misfolded ones to work at
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Fuck prions and the horse theyr rode in on. They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.
Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
WIPocket@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wdym too late? Is there something you could have done if you knew “soon enough”?
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 7 months ago
I say this without any attempt at humor, “kill yourself peacefully before you’re unable to and the people around you refuse to”
If I knew I had a prion disease, I’d be making plans to die peacefully unaware, or suddenly, the moment a symptom shows up.
My only real firsthand experience with prion diseases is Fatal Familial Insomnia, and the person was strapped into hospital bed restraints after a suicide attempt, and the only thing they would do when they chose to speak was beg for us to let them die because they can’t keep going like this anymore.
Signtist@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Tell everyone else not to try the lasagna?
Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Fuckal
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
“you can’t kill them” And as an American, I took that personally
remotedev@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
So anyways, I started blasting
bananabenana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Prion vaccines would work for sure. Their rarity makes it not all that worthwhile as a public health measure
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How do you vaccinate against a protein?
OpenStars@discuss.online 7 months ago
Not really, so long as you have already reproduced. From the perspective of your genes, “you” are expendable anyway:-(.
And if we want to do anything about that, perhaps we should properly fund scientific research.
Azzu@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Unless you’re infertile, from the perspective of your genes, it’s still too early.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Well, viruses aren’t alive either. I would say they are very similar to Prions in the aspect, that it is just a rogue biological building block, able to get itself reproduced, to the dismay of the body.
Also there is no reason, why you couldn’t develop vaccines against Prions. It could be even simpler, because they have to be shaped very specifically to cause the harm they do, and it should be easy to break that specific shape with something attaching to it.
bitfucker@programming.dev 7 months ago
At least virus have different genetic code which suggest they are different something. Prion is just normal protein gone rogue.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Viruses at least have DNA though. Prions are far, far simpler by comparison.