By John Glover November 16, 2011
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Posted in: In response to your questions, Science and Science Fiction
Tagged: 24, creative nonfiction, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Jack Bauer, mad cow disease, prions, protein folding, PrP, scrapie, spongiform encephalopathy, Stanley Prusiner
The Science and Science Fiction of Prions
A made-for-TV terror plot. It is season 7 of 24, a bioweapon developed and tested in a brutalized African nation under the heel of a delusional despot, turns up in the US in the shipyards of Alexandria, Virginia on … Continue reading