Nobel panel rewards prion theory after years of heated debate

Harriet Coles

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6651, 529-529

Abstract: london The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded this week to Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco, for his contributions towards the identification of the infectious agent that causes diseases such as BSE in cows, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

Date: 1997
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