PrP及朊病毒疾病的的常规研究将有可能变得更加容易理解。
There's hope that by disentangling PrP's normal job, prion diseases will become easier to understand.
但是目前还不清楚这一变异是否对其他由朊病毒引起的疾病有效。
But it's not yet known whether the variant protects against other prion diseases.
2003年,米德和他的同事发现了朊病毒基因更普遍的变体,可以抗御与朊病毒有关的疾病。
In 2003, Mead and his colleagues discovered a much more common variant of the prion gene that provides protection against prion diseases.
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