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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by DennisP on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:35PM (#18650542)
But they do reproduce, by causing other proteins to misfold. If they didn't reproduce at all, then ingesting a few prions wouldn't cause any problems.

They can't reproduce outside of the body, but neither can viruses.

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Re:Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, See... by jamiek88 on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:38PM (#18650999)
Yes but they can only warp their own specific kind of protein not take over an entire reproductive ability of the native cell.

It’s orders of magnitude less reproduction.

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