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One thing that comes to mind is prions, which cause diseases like mad cow and CJD. "Prions are misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded
by acjohnson55 5y ago
One thing that comes to mind is prions, which cause diseases like mad cow and CJD.
"Prions are misfolded proteins with the ability to transmit their misfolded shape onto normal variants of the same protein."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
- icoder 5y agoI think you and parent came up with a possibly better example than the one in the article quoted by the grandparent comment, more so than it being a clarification of how single DNA mutations ripple out to be big problems.