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by Lawtonfogle 3719 days ago
>and I'm not sure whether the immune system can be trained to attack only prions and not their regular protein equivalents.

A prion tends to be vastly different than the original protein. I thought the bigger problem was that prions are the metaphorical tanks of the protein world. Just look at what it takes to denature a prion compared to other proteins.