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Are prions living?


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Prions:

  1. They are proteinaceous infectious particles.
  2. They cause several neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, like Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
  3. They are non-living, unlike other pathogens. They do not contain nucleic acids.
  4. They are dependent on their host cell in order to reproduce.

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