Prions: The Real Zombie-Makers

Hank is tired of zombies in popular culture, and while acknowledging that dead people are scary (especially if they start moving around), he brings us some information on prions - misfolded proteins that are responsible for destroying brains and get passed around mostly by getting eaten. So yeah, zombie stuff. Like SciShow? Follow SciShow! References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: