4 ms·
My takeaways from quickly skimming the article: - not that many prion diseases among brain eating people surprisingly (but are statistics accurate? what if the
by throwaway290 3y ago
My takeaways from quickly skimming the article:
- not that many prion diseases among brain eating people surprisingly (but are statistics accurate? what if they develop later?)
- perhaps because our ancestors did it, human DNA has a gene that "protects" from prion diseases somehow. didn't know that could be a thing!
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- throwanem 3y agoNot a gene per se, though it's no surprise a popular science outlet screws this up; given a working clock, they typically do only slightly better than chance at identifying the time of day. From the cited paper [1], what actually makes the difference is having your two copies of a specific gene (one from each parent) differ from one another in a few specific, relatively common ways. [1] https://www.gs.washington.edu/news/article.pdf https://www.gs.washington.edu/news/article.pdf