> In article <2s9kcp$cqv at mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> jclewley at crc.ac.uk(Dr. J.P. Clewley) writes:
>> >> Proteinaceous infectious agent.
> >> Anyone know why it's not Proin?
>> >Probably so that it ends in -on; as in codon, operon, muon,
transposon,
> >etc.
>> But surely if it's a protein, it should end in -in, not -on;
heparin, albumin,
> integrins, whatever :)
You mean people really BELIEVE in those things? Apart from Stan
Prusiner, that is?
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