Newly Deciphered Structure Suggests How Infectious Prions Replicate (IMAGE)

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Newly Deciphered Structure Suggests How Infectious Prions Replicate

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Molecular architecture of an infectious mammalian prion is shown.

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Ester Vázquez-Fernández, Howard Young, Holger Wille, Jesús Requena.

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