@NilaJones @datum same! If I hadn't heard a podcast about prions* recently, I'd have thought that was bonkers 😅 *If I understood correctly, prions (or some prions ?) have the same composition as some normal proteins but a different spatial shape. When the prion bumps into that protein, it changes the configuration of that protein to be the same as the prion. Rinse, repeat, chain reaction, and suddenly things get real bad (because of course the prion can't do whatever function that protein was supposed to do in the organism).