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A first-person account of a revolutionary scientific discovery that is now helping to unravel the mysteries of brain diseases
In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for theā¦
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Stan Prusiner received the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1997 for identifying what at the time was considered a novel mechanism of neurodegeneration: the prions. These āinfectious proteinsā were responsible for ravaging the brains of animals suffering from scrapie and mad cow disease, and of humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Although I have come to doubt that prions are a cause of rapidly progressive dementia and may instead represent a consequence, Prusinerās memoir is filled with moments of skepticism, self-doubt, adversity, and intellectual rivalries āthe ingredients for a gripping drama in neurosciences.Ā
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