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Wow, well that was a thing I didn't know about. Cool, yet another disturbing way nature wants to make things terrible for me, haha :( Two "fun" excerpts from
by amatecha 5y ago
Wow, well that was a thing I didn't know about. Cool, yet another disturbing way nature wants to make things terrible for me, haha :(
Two "fun" excerpts from the Wikipedia page about Prions[0]:
> Experimental evidence shows that unbound prions degrade over time, while soil-bound prions remain at stable or increasing levels, suggesting that prions likely accumulate in the environment
> It is thus possible that there is a progressively accumulating number of prions in the environment.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion