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Although Prusiner's work had not been replicated by anyone and he had still not published these supposedly seminal findings that prions cause disease in a peer-reviewed journal, he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award in October 1994.
But four months later, Prusiner was still describing the mice work to Scientific American 's lay readers as "a persuasive experiment."
In 1991, Prusiner reported at a major conference that he had proved that the infectious agents of these diseases were proteins free of nucleic acids.
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
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."