Protein
What are proteins made of
What is Amino Acids?
What is a prion
What is Misfolded protein?
What is kuru also called
What is laughing sickness or death?
Are there any effective cures for prions
What is there is no cure?
Who officially first discovered Prions
Who is Stanley Prusiner?
What can denature or misfold protein
What is ph, environmental stress or genetics?
What is the mortality rate of a prion infection
What is 100%
What group was impacted the most by kuru
What is Fore women and children?
What process was used to turn off PrP production before the advent of CRISPR
Domain Exchange
What infection causes insomnia that leads to death
What is Fatal Familial Insomnia(FFI)
Proteins are good at storage T/F
What is False?
What type of prion causes the most problems for mammals if they ever become a prion
What is PrP?
What causes kuru
Cannibalism
What is the drug that had the most promising results but failed after the prions developed immunity
What is Quinaqurin?
The human strand of Mad Cow Disease
What is vCJD?
At what stage does proteins take 3D form
What is Tertiary?
Why do prions solely affect the nervous system
What is because of primary location in the nervous system?
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for their research in Kuru
Who is Dr. Daniel Gajdvsek?
Why are prions so hard to cure in the first place
What is Because how can you kill a protein?
Prion infection that causes loss of coordination
What is Kuru?
What protein, if defected, causes sickle cell
What is Hemoglobin?
What does TSE stand for
What is Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies?
What area of the brain is most affected by Kuru
What is the cerebellum
What is the most promising cure for prions in development
What is CHARM?(Coupled Histone tail for Autoinhibition Release of Methyltransferase)
What prion infection mainly affects sheeps
What is Scrapies?