TOPIC health![Illustration of a normal human protein in the process of becoming a prion. The red and yellow regions are the first to become mangled, or misfolded. [Credit: Cornu, Wikimedia Commons]](http://scienceline.org/_s/files/2009/06/prion-mod.jpg) Illustration of a normal human protein in the process of becoming a prion. The red and yellow regions are the first to become mangled, or misfolded. [Credit: Cornu, Wikimedia Commons]
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