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Episode 27: Prions Part II 1997

Episode 27: Prions Part II 1997

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This episode covers the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Stanley B. Prusiner. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute chose to give Prusiner the award “for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection”. Topics include the work Prusiner did to define prion diseases, the amazing molecular nature of how prion diseases spread, and mad cow disease.

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