Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease

[Michael Jack]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:26:40 -0500, Rich Dudley <rdudley+ at pitt.edu>
wrote:

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>The guy who first put forth this theory is Stanley Pruisner (sp?).  He won the
>Nobel Proze last year, and you can find a walth of info searching for "prion" on
>the web.

Stanley B. Prusiner. The following page has more info on Prusiner &
prions, including a Shockwave animation explaining some of the details
in the conversion from normal to scrapie prion protein:

http://www.nobel.se/announcement-97/medicine97.html

Regards
Michael
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