Slashdot article: Synthetic prion made at UCSD

[Gasoline]

An interesting article and discussion going on at Slashdot right now.

Researchers at UCSD have made a synthetic prion and killed mice with it.
Slashdot article link here (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/30/0216249&tid=191&tid=134)

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Afterwords, these prions were injected into the brains of mice who fell ill two years later.

interesting. but maybe having something injected into your brain would do the same thing ;)