Sentences with phrase «because yeast prions»
Because yeast prions act much like mammalian prions and are easier to study, scientists hope they will offer clues about how these mis - folding chain reactions get started and how they might be stopped.
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«Although we first became aware of prions because they cause several bizarre neurological diseases, the discovery that something so awesomely similar happens in organisms as different as humans and yeast makes us suspect that there is a fundamental, common biochemical process at work here,» said study director Susan Lindquist, PhD, professor of molecular genetics and cell biology and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago.