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Prion Diseases fascinate me.
Maybe it's imagining protein cells refolding themselves and teaching other cells to do it too. little crane shaped dead cells forming holes in your brain.
Fatal familial insomnia is especially interesting, I guess there happens to be some gene that sits there and eventually starts producing mutant protein cells when you get to be 40 or 50, onset is late enough in life that you have a pretty good chance of passing it on (it's genetic). It destroys your thalamus, eventually making you unable to sleep and unable to produce tears or feel pain and, um, other stuff too.
Ick.
Cool.
Maybe it's imagining protein cells refolding themselves and teaching other cells to do it too. little crane shaped dead cells forming holes in your brain.
Fatal familial insomnia is especially interesting, I guess there happens to be some gene that sits there and eventually starts producing mutant protein cells when you get to be 40 or 50, onset is late enough in life that you have a pretty good chance of passing it on (it's genetic). It destroys your thalamus, eventually making you unable to sleep and unable to produce tears or feel pain and, um, other stuff too.
Ick.
Cool.