Sorry about the click bait picture, who can resist Orphan Black? Prions are a type of self-folding protein that triggers other normal proteins in the brains of animals to fold abnormally. The result is a variety of diseases, the best know are Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
News Article:
YouTube:
Scientific Article:
prion 98
More Content . . .
All about prions
