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Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.

Publication Details

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014 CE.

Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

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Entry Number#7624
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9796
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLmadness-and-memory-the-discovery-of-prions

Geographic Context

Publication place: New Haven, CT