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[-] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago
[-] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

Mr. Kennedy's Brainworm told me viruses are a mindset.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Rabies is the funny feeling you get when you hold hands with your sweetheart

No that's cooties

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

Hmm I dunno, I'd argue prions have a far better claim of being perfectly folded proteins phoenix-think

[-] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds exactly like something prion would say...

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Luckily I’m a fucking moron and don’t know what any of that means

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Here’s a primer: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3882043/

Also Wikipedia has some models of proteins in their folded and unfolded configurations.

Protein misfolding is now implicated in the progression of hundreds of diseases; indeed, it is involved in the majority of diseases not caused by an infectious agent.

Prions are being mentioned because they are a famous example of contagious misfolded proteins, but really a lot of other diseases are caused by the same basic issue of misfolded proteins.

[-] SovietyWoomy@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago

Anti-woke ideology was originally about refusing to think about the prions laying dormant in your brain so they don't wake up. Unfortunately, someone misheard prion as pronoun and things rapidly spiraled downhill from there.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Pronouns, the prions of society.

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

side-eye-1 side-eye-2

Not my proteins crinkled as fuck and draped precariously on a chair next to my bed

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

The nefarious prion. catgirl-smug

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ay who out here trying to get folded?

this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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