When she was 23, a lab worker pricked her thumb in an experiment with prion-infected mice. She died 10 years later

DukeTrout · July 30, 2021, 9:04pm

Well, they aren’t exactly indestructible. Just like any other protein, they can be dismantled destructively with radiation, chemicals, and/or heat. It is remarkable how extreme those conditions have to be to irreversibly damage prions, but it’s doable.

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When she was 23, a lab worker pricked her thumb in an experiment with prion-infected mice. She died 10 years later

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