Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain by Lin Tang, Jay Ingram

Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Lin Tang, Jay Ingram

296 pages hardcover 2012

3 editions

nonfiction health science informative medium-paced
More Options

Read With Others

Book Information

Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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 challen...

Show More

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...