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The beneficial side of prions

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The infectious agents could aid yeast survival in harsh conditions.

Prions, the mis-folded proteins best known for causing diseases such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, could also help yeast survival, according to a study in the journal Cell1.

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