00:00Can a simple protein become an infectious killer?
00:03It sounds impossible, right?
00:05Meet prions, bad proteins that shatter everything we know about diseases.
00:10They force normal proteins to twist into the wrong shape, like a bad mold.
00:16This deadly chain reaction then slowly melts away healthy brain tissue.
00:21Here's the shocker.
00:22Prions have no DNA or RNA.
00:25They rewrite life without genes.
00:27For more secrets on how proteins can be infectious, check the link in bio.
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