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Prions: The Real Zombie-Makers
- Published_at:2012-10-23
- Category:Education
- Channel:scishow
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- description: Hank is tired of zombies in popular culture, and while acknowledging that dead people are scary (especially if they start moving around), he brings us some information on prions - misfolded proteins that are responsible for destroying brains and get passed around mostly by getting eaten. So yeah, zombie stuff. Like SciShow? http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow! http://www.twitter.com/scishow References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: http://dft.ba/-2jtJ scishow, science, biology, hank green, disease, zombies, prions, protein, brain, nervous tissue, DNA, shape, folding, PrP, fatal insomnia, highly conserved sequence, mammal, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, symptoms, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, meat, infection, kuru, fore, papua new guinea, cannibalism, genetic mutation
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| 2012-10-25 | 53,205 | 3,256 | 722 |
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