Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248

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If you accept viruses as "life", do you accept prions?

Personally, I don't. They don't replicate, they are one of many proteins. What happens in the diseases is that the same protein with a different fold somehow (I don't know whether we understand how) causes other examples of itself to change their folds to its way of folding.