Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain Format:Hardcover Quality assurance: 3 years of

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Rather than dismissing genetic reductionism out of hand

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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain Format:Hardcover Quality assurance: 3 years ofWon the Canadian Science Writers' Association Outstanding Canadian Science Book Award for general audience books published in 2012. Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge the very foundations of biology: A disease causing entity with no genetic