Fatal Flaws

Author: Jay Ingram
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00BQZ1V60

Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Download Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution.AThey challenge the very foundations of biology:AA disease-causing entity with no genetic material at all?AA molecule capable of infecting, multiplying, and killing? This book recounts theAbirth of prion science and the imaginative detective work scientists have undertakenAas theyAstruggle to find the answers to devastating brain diseases from mad cow and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's, and others.AAs in each of his best-selling books, Jay Ingram here makes comp Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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