Also: prion, scrapie, Stanley Prusiner, 1997 Nobel Prize, mad cow disease
Prions are infectious agents made of protein. Stanley Prusiner coined the term in 1982 and received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Prusiner presented six lines of evidence that the scrapie agent needs a protein to be infectious and resists procedures that modify nucleic acids, and proposed the term prion for this new kind of agent.
As reported in: Prusiner (1982). Novel Proteinaceous Infectious Particles Cause Scrapie. Science. doi:10.1126/science.6801762
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