image: Cross-species transmission of prions leads to facilitated extra-neural replication. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 27, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Vincent Béringue at Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in Jouy-en-Josas, France, and colleagues, was titled, “Facilitated Cross-Species Transmission of Prions in Extraneural Tissue.” view more
Credit: [Image © INRA/VIM/Vincent Béringue]