Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease /

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In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate. His struggle to identify the agent responsible for ravaging the brains of animals...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prusiner, Stanley B., 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Prusiner, Stanley B., > 1942-
Physicians > United States > Biography.
Physicians > Biography.
Prions > History.
Prion diseases > History.
Physicians.
Physicians
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Prions > history
Médecins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Prions (Virologie) > Histoire.
Maladies à prions > Histoire.
Médecins.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
physicians.
MEDICAL > Biochemistry.
Prion diseases.
Prions.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Growing up
  • The beginning of an odyssey
  • A plethora of theories
  • The scrapie race
  • Dr. America and the trembling cannibals
  • The battle for tenure
  • What's in a name?
  • Lost in the Pacific fog
  • The amyloid story
  • Finding the gene
  • Jousting with the press
  • Deciphering human prion diseases
  • What's in a shape?
  • Turf battles
  • Mad cow and other prion strains
  • Stockholm
  • The third judgment of Paris
  • Epilogue: the quest for therapeutics.

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