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As I recall Alzheimer's Disease causes the brain to fill up with a left-handed protein that is a mirror image of a naturally occuring protein in the human body. Very similar to this is the prion which causes the encephalopathies like Creutzfelt-Jakob Disease, Mad Cow Disease, and Scrapie. Prions act like they are alive but don't have DNA or any of the other things we have come to associate with living organisms.Another vary bizarre creature is a plant/animal called Pfiesteria Piscicida, which has a 23 stage life cycle and lives quietly in estuary water most of the time, but when its water is polluted with enough sewage and fertilizer in can change into a predatory stage of its development and produce a toxin which dissolves flesh and causes open sores on fish in the water. The toxin also outgasses into the air and can cause weird, violent behavior in humans and also permanent memory loss. Fascinating book on the research around this strange critter was written by Rodney Barker, AND THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD.Scientists have long wondered if life on this planet might not have been seeded here by space-born debris.
As I recall Alzheimer's Disease causes the brain to fill up with a left-handed protein that is a mirror image of a naturally occuring protein in the human body. Very similar to this is the prion which causes the encephalopathies like Creutzfelt-Jakob Disease, Mad Cow Disease, and Scrapie. Prions act like they are alive but don't have DNA or any of the other things we have come to associate with living organisms.
Another vary bizarre creature is a plant/animal called Pfiesteria Piscicida, which has a 23 stage life cycle and lives quietly in estuary water most of the time, but when its water is polluted with enough sewage and fertilizer in can change into a predatory stage of its development and produce a toxin which dissolves flesh and causes open sores on fish in the water. The toxin also outgasses into the air and can cause weird, violent behavior in humans and also permanent memory loss. Fascinating book on the research around this strange critter was written by Rodney Barker, AND THE WATERS TURNED TO BLOOD.
Scientists have long wondered if life on this planet might not have been seeded here by space-born debris.
