Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain Format:Hardcover offering a range of philosophical

offering a range of philosophical and political perspectives on the power of synthetic biology

The Spirit of the Hive applies genomics

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and biochemistry of the diverse array of organisms that emit light

Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain Format:Hardcover offering a range of philosophicalWon the Canadian Science Writers' Association Outstanding Canadian Science Book Award for general audience books published in 2012. 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. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge the very foundations of biology: A disease causing entity with no genetic