Last year, the UCLA researchers were doing experiments on picorna viruses-- a family of viruses that are composed of a single strand of RNA surrounded by a protein coat.
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Rohwer said that the old data showing a small size were misinterpreted and that in fact they show that the scrapie agent is about the size of some very small viruses known as picorna viruses.
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Setting the vaccine research aside temporarily, he launched an investigation to find the answer and came up with a strand of a complex cellular molecule that seeks out the picorna viruses and prevents them from reproducing.
