Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
by joshuaissac on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @07:28AM
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The Fora people even developed a prion that confers resistance to kuru:
> researchers [...] discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a population from Papua New Guinea that confers strong resistance to kuru
> This community [...] has developed their own biologically unique response [...] this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades
> researchers [...] discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a population from Papua New Guinea that confers strong resistance to kuru
> This community [...] has developed their own biologically unique response [...] this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades