Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: lfk@eastman1.mit.edu (Lee F. Kolakowski) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Prions Message-ID: Date: 21 Jan 91 17:53:34 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Mass. Inst. of Tech., Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 19 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu There is a good review of Scrapie agents and the arguement for Prions in September 1990 Microbiological Reviews (an ASM journal). Prions and the prion protein are alive and well. Whats not is the infectious nucleic acid theory. -- Frank Kolakowski ======================================================================= |lfk@athena.mit.edu or lfk@eastman1.mit.edu or kolakowski@wccf.mit.edu| | Lee F. Kolakowski M.I.T. | | Dept of Chemistry Room 18-506 | | 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 | | AT&T: 1-617-253-1866 #include | =======================================================================