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1 giorno fa · The word prion, coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner, is derived from protein and infection, hence prion, and is short for "proteinaceous infectious particle", in reference to its ability to self-propagate and transmit its conformation to other proteins.
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4 giorni fa · Topics include pilot David Steeves’ missing airplane, singer Sinéad O’Connor public denunciation of the Catholic Church, neurologist Stanley Prusiner’s discovery of prions, and neuropathologist Bennet Omalu’s findings of CTEs in …
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5 giorni fa · Prusiner discovered prions, infectious proteins that cause diseases like BSE (mad cow disease). His idea that proteins could transmit diseases without nucleic acids was considered heretical. However, he was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking work. Viktor Frankl
1 giorno fa · Stanley B. Prusiner: Dario Fo: International Campaign to Ban Landmines; Jody Williams: Robert C. Merton; Myron Scholes: 1998 Robert B. Laughlin; Horst Ludwig Störmer; Daniel C. Tsui: Walter Kohn; John Pople: Robert F. Furchgott; Louis Ignarro; Ferid Murad: José Saramago: John Hume; David Trimble: Amartya Sen: 1999 Gerard 't Hooft; Martinus J ...
1 giorno fa · Doctor Stanley Prusiner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of California-San Fransisco was able, in 1982, to isolate an infectious protein known as a prion, which is responsible for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and its human counterpart Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
4 giorni fa · The mission of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases is to discover causes and develop cures for these illnesses with an innovative program of basic research and clinical medicine. The IND is directed by Nobel Laureate Stanley B. Prusiner, MD.
