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  • noun Plural form of prion.

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Examples

  • 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

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