«We know the structure of the healthy normal cellular form of the protein, but we knew very little about the infectious prion protein and how it propagates. (sciencedaily.com)
Prusiner showed that prion proteins (PrP) exist in a normal cellular form, and in a misfolded infectious form. (scientificamerican.com)
The result, a series of abstract compositions that look like clusters of oddly shaped cellular forms — «images of primal slime», one critic said, illumined by «a sunlit mescaline glow» — was completed in 2009. (michaelwerner.com)