Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: heskett@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Donald Heskett) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Prions Message-ID: Date: 7 Jan 91 20:40:17 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin. Lines: 8 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu Today's issue of the Wall St. Journal has a front page article on spongiform encephalopathy and talks briefly about prions as a possible infectious agent. It mentions one test in which candidate infectious material was held at over 600 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour...and remained, apparently, infectious; that doesn't sound like organic matter, much less genetic material.