Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:28AM
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Do you have an example of such a chemical being used to effectively remediate prion contaminated environments?
Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
by XorNot on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @11:54AM
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Apparently not: I was thinking glutaraldehyde which is used for cleaning in hospitals but reading up the advice for prions is explicitly opposed to cross-linking agents.
Which makes sense I guess but it's also scary.
Re:Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @01:12PM
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You raised my hopes and dashed them exquisitely.
Until we have better, cheaper, and less error prone methods of remediating prion diseases they're the #1 fear on my biological apocalypse list.
But it's nasty stuff to work with, since it also happily does tons of damage to the proteins making up the humans applying it.