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When he finally published his proof-of-prion paper, it was only after it had been rejected by the journal Cell . Prusiner managed to find a home for it in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science , where it wouldn't have to be peer-reviewed.
Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
In the past year, Science and Nature , the two most distinguished scientific journals, have published three major papers suggesting that the causative agents of these diseases are not prions, and that Prusiner's 15 years of prion research is simply wrong.
This is what makes Prusiner's hypothesis so radical: Prions would be the only proteins on the planet that reproduce--not to mention infect and kill animals--and thus the only known exceptions to the rules of the Crick-Watson paradigm of molecular biology.
What, then, is one to make of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded to neurologist Stanley Prusiner this week?