They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there’s enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.
Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.
It’s a hugely simplified and slightly true version of where prions come from, to begin with. Like if a news article wanted to write something out in two sentences when it’s based on a 20,000 word paper.
They fed ground up chickens to cows, then fed ground up cows to chickens, who went back to the cows = prions. Run the cycle on repeat until there’s enough prions in the cows to burn holes in their brains, until the solid muscle matter is literally like a kitchen sponge = mad cow disease.
Prions are a super spicy protein from cannibalism. Unfortunately, any animal can make them, and prions are hard as fuck to kill, surviving a week exposed to the elements on a surface and will transfer species.
We call Mad Cow, Kuru in humans.
Cannibalism is baaaaad
You have a few bits of half understood concepts in there, at least.
Do elaborate, I’d like to learn what was wrong about their comment.
It’s a hugely simplified and slightly true version of where prions come from, to begin with. Like if a news article wanted to write something out in two sentences when it’s based on a 20,000 word paper.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4010318/#:~:text=An expanding body of evidence,conformation that becomes self-propagating.