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In some of these mice, scientists then used an enzyme to switch off the gene that makes the normal prion protein when the rodents are about nine weeks old - equivalent to adolescence
Interesting. But notice, it requires shutting off a gene.
Perhaps later they can shut off a gene that makes a protein which is being 'prionized' by prions (thats what they do, they make normal proteins crumple into prion versions of themselves), and then give hte person a protein supplement that has been specifically structured so as to resist 'prionization'??
