Folding and Unfolding
Stephen Buranyi: Protein to Prion, 24 July 2025
The Power of Prions: The Strange and Essential Proteins That Can Cause Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Other Diseases
by Michel Brahic.
Princeton, 175 pp., £20, January,978 0 691 25238 4 Show More
by Michel Brahic.
Princeton, 175 pp., £20, January,
“... proven that these prions really exist.’In his new book the French neuroscientist and biochemist Michel Brahic recalls that frantic period. He was one of the scientists who fielded calls from journalists, and who told them – mistakenly – that it was extremely unlikely the disease could jump to humans. This is a surprisingly frank admission, but ... ”
