State Census Data Center - Demographic, social, economic, migration, and housing data from the decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, the Current Population Survey, and other special and periodic surveys.
Prions are a disease-causing form of a normal protein called cellular prion protein (PrPC) that is located primarily on the surface of central nervous system cells but also in other tissues of the body in mammals.
Introduction to Prions. As aspiring young biologists taking Dr. Toolsons toxins class, we are fascinated by all the weird and mysterious things out there in the world that can kill us. Among the weirdest and most intriguing are prions. Defying the usual categories of toxins and infectious agents, they share characteristics of both.