terratogen wrote:
] Researchers have figured out how to build their own
] artificial prions, the deadly, malformed proteins that cause
] the brain decay of mad-cow disease as well as
] Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the human form of the disease.
]
]
] Why would anyone want to build something so destructive?
] Because by making their own prions, researchers can learn how
] they work. Learning how these deadly proteins operate is the
] first step in understanding how to stop their destruction.

And the first step in creating even more biological terror agents.