Will there ever be a way to combat prions?
Will there ever be a way to combat prions?
Jace Richardson
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Evan Murphy
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Caleb Roberts
no.
Kevin Jenkins
Read about them. They are incredibly nasty things. Misfolded PrP is ridiculously difficult to denature.
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Unless we can develop an enzyme that can cleave these fuckers (unlikely given how well they are bonded together), I doubt there is much that can be done.
Recently I learn an old acquaintance of mine that I liked a lot has become a completely different person as of late. A neurologist that I know thinks he has a spontaneous prion disease. THAT IS FUCKING TERRIFYING. It could literally happen to any of us. Fortunaretly it is very rare, but once you show signs, you don't have long. I guess we will find out over the next couple years if he really has a prion disease or not. :'(
Nolan Cruz
Don't talk bad about anyone's mother and maybe it wouldn't happen.
Lincoln Baker
Ou my got, you are trying to syntehtyze more killing stuff again instead of getting book.
Matthew Morris
Synthetic nanomachines that can cross the BBB. They might have to resort to removing them mechanically, ie, latching on and pulling it to the kidneys, or somewhere else.
Jordan Richardson
We don't even know the role of the native PrPc, knocked out mouse for the PrPc gene are fine, and this protein is well conserved in mamals.
Yes there will be a way one day, but there is not enough cases to warrant funding a solution at this time.
Benjamin Fisher
Criminal justice reform.
John Morgan
Ayyyy, this guy!
Anthony Hughes
Considering how rare prion diseases are, i doubt there is much research going on.
Camden Stewart
You'd be surprised. The UK and Germany, to a lesser extent France, have an unknown portion of the population infected. They're just waiting for it to show.
Some people also have a genetic resistance and it's important to know how.
Grayson Stewart
>be westerner
>get dick mutilated at birth
>contract prions
>get shot or ran over by a truck
lol what a ""society""
Benjamin Murphy
Neonatal circumcision is indeed a violation of medicine's most base ethical principles, and should have been banned years ago.
Incidence of prion disease in the US is fairly low and expected to remain that way. It's mostly an issue in Europe, because they were retarded by delusions of efficiency, in their own ways.
The US does have major social problems. We ought to just collapse like every other republic, and get it over with. This trash is not salvageable.
Adam Phillips
Guys I'm scared of prions, one little thing in my brain and my life is fucked, please don't remind me
Christopher Perry
The same could be said of any other disease
One wayward virus particle, one unfortunately situated bacterial colony, one atherosclerotic plaque in the wrong artery, one fast-replicating cell your immune system doesn't pick up on...
Xavier White
Prion disease may be rare but the underlying mechanism, amyloid plaque formation, plays a role in several more prevalent diseases such as Alzheimer's, Charcot-Marie Tooth, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Julian Gonzalez
Preons are inside quarks.
Carson Lee
And quark comes from tree bark.
Luke Myers
Nukes? Nukes combat everything
Jason Diaz
Nanonukes, son.