Prions are only destroyed by:• incineration• autoclaving in 1N NaOH
No, cooking does not destroy or disable prions. If you were able to cook a meat that contains prions to the point where the prions were disabled, the meat would be rendered inedible.You can use chemicals mixed with heat to destroy prions, but that's not a process you would want to subject your food to.
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures. You can inactivate them, not kill them. They are technically not alive. Think of them more like a substance, a protein to be exact.
Prions
No, DNA is not found in any prions. Prions are just protein - they don't contain a nucleic acid.
Prions are only destroyed by:• incineration• autoclaving in 1N NaOH
No, cooking does not destroy or disable prions. If you were able to cook a meat that contains prions to the point where the prions were disabled, the meat would be rendered inedible.You can use chemicals mixed with heat to destroy prions, but that's not a process you would want to subject your food to.
They get BSE or Kuru or Scrapie.
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures. You can inactivate them, not kill them. They are technically not alive. Think of them more like a substance, a protein to be exact.
Prions
No, DNA is not found in any prions. Prions are just protein - they don't contain a nucleic acid.
Prions are an infectious particle made of protein. They do not contain DNA or RNA.
No, prions aren't organisms or even organism imitators like viruses. Prions are misfolded proteins that can aggregate and cause serious neurological problems. See link below for more info about prions from Answers.com.
Prions are made up only of proteins and lack nucleic acids.
Prions affect the nervous system (the brain and other neural tissue).
Both Viroids and Prions have nucleic acid, but Viroids have no outer protein coat.
Much larger, prions are just proteins containing no nucleic acids or lipid bilayer.