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Prusiner

American  
[proo-zi-ner] / ˈpru zɪ nər /

noun

  1. Stanley Ben 1942–, American biochemist.


Prusiner Scientific  
/ pro̅o̅sĭ-nər /
  1. American biochemist who received the 1997 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discovery of prions.


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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

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

But by the mid 2000s, it was clear that Prusiner had been essentially correct.

From Nature Jul. 13, 2011

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