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Thursday, July 29, 2004

synthetic prion makes mad mice

Researchers have created a synthetic protein that makes mice display symptoms similar to those of mad cow disease

this is important, of course, if for no other reason than the expansion of human knowledge. but we live in a time of fear and terror, so now the clock is ticking on the “mad human bioweapon,” right?

onset of symptoms in mice is one to two years, so we’ll be ok as long as the terrorists aren’t patient.

posted by roj at 2:37 pm