However, people's research on prions is far from over. For example, since mistakes made by organisms can lead to diseases, will these wrong protein itself have some normal physiological functions like prions in yeast? Several China scholars from the Southwest Medical Center of the University of Texas have done research in this field.

After a long detour, I finally have to ask a question. In fact, after reading the above contents, we can find that prion is actually a kind of protein, which is obviously different from bacterial virus, and of course it is not a kind of organism, so the status of prion in chemistry is probably not as important as we thought (which is also my feeling after reading the literature).

However, the significance of prion discovery is not limited to this. It not only breaks people's stereotype of infectious disease pathogens, but also reveals that changes in physical and chemical properties in protein can also cause physiological changes, including pathological changes.