Can Proteins kill you? | Earth Science
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Published 2017-08-17
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Footnotes
1 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-prion…
2 rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6429/fatal-fami…
3 www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/…
4 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6801762
5 www.healthline.com/health/kuru#overview1
6 www.theguardian.com/books/2007/aug/25/features.wee…
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All Comments (21)
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Technically a bear is a large collection of proteins
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"But I thought you are what you eat."
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From the thumbnail I'm guessing this is going to be a video about prion disease.
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"However, the Venetians aren't known for eating brains." Venetian blinds on the other hand...
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Why does the wrongly folded transforms the well folded protein and not the inverse ?
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Thanks!
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No brain eating? Well, what else am i supposed to do tonight?
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Fantastic! Our tribe's chieftess wrote about these prions in one of her books she released a few years ago. In our oral tradition, we have the same story passed down to us about certain ones from times past who practiced cannibalism and they developed kuru as a result as well.
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Ty .
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dyels trying to be gains goblins when will they learn
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I know the last part is a joke, but sadly it's true. Any food that you eat that is part of the central nervous system can have prions. I want to eat brain though, the taste is so unique.
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I'd say an equally important lesson is don't feed cattle to cattle...
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ok back to hitting the gym...
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Dinner Cancelled. Thnx guys I was gonna eat at the Cerebrum Restaurant but now I'm not
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"Don't eat other people's brains" Uhh, did you forget about Mad Cow Disease/BSE? It's the reason your beef is still banned in the USA. I'd say "don't eat any brains or any cannibalistic animal."
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ummm weird question over here. we know that cocking alter the protein's shapes so if they have cocked the brains would the disease still be carried ? just a question for no reason at all
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Can't eat brains anymore but can I still pick peoples brains.
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An infection that causes my IQ to drop drastically, difficulty to speak, hard to walk properly and some urge to eat brains? I wonder... Where have I heard of this before? ಠಿ_ಠ
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5:26 what about animal brains?
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Dont tell me what to do. Ill eat as many brains as i want!
