Get on it, Elon! I mean the "10 years away" train. Make it 5!

Won't help much, because you won't be able to find it.

The relationship of Tau to prions (cause of mad cow disease) is discussed here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3015202/?tool=pubmed "Tau, prions and A: the triad of neurodegeneration."

This is potentially catastrophic. Remember that the cause of mad cow disease is a mirror-reflected protein that can self-replicate. What's the implication of new DNA codons? Single-celled organisms that have no natural enemy, and maybe can't even be detected by the immune system? AIDS or cancer on steroids?