Prusiner
Americannoun
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Ever since neurologist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco identified infectious prions as a cause of neurodegenerative disease in 1982, the quest for treatments has come up short.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024
Dr. Stanley Prusiner, at the University of California, San Francisco, coined the term prion and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for research on the diseases.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2017
That same year, Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for identifying the causal mechanism of kuru and other so-called prion diseases, a discovery that would profoundly influence the Baxleys.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2017
Although controversial at the time, the discovery eventually earned Prusiner a Nobel prize in 1997.
From Nature • Oct. 25, 2016
One potentially prionlike protein may cause several diseases, according to a study published this summer by Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, who discovered prions in the 1980s.
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2015
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