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croddin on July 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: France issues moratorium on prion research after f...

I wonder if it would be possible to make a designer protein that latches onto prion “seed crystals” to neutralize it. Some of the recent advances in protein folding and crispr make it so this might be starting to be something in the realm of possibility.

droopyEyelids on July 28, 2021 [–]

Gotta be some of the most terrifying technology imaginable.

croddin on July 28, 2021 | [–]

That idea would be to cure it, prions are terrifying.

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