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In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
Prusiner's boilerplate response to prion critics has been that if mad-cow disease or any of the other "prion diseases" is caused by a virus, then surely that virus would have been discovered by now.
What, then, is one to make of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded to neurologist Stanley Prusiner this week?
But even Prusiner hasn't been able to explain how a protein that has no nucleic acid could encode for the variations.
He got his share of bad press, for which I take--and am given--entirely too much credit (read my December 1986 feature story in Discover by clicking ). By 1985, when Prusiner's own papers were still suggesting that the prion hypothesis was at best a long shot, he won a $4-million congressional award "to determine the structure of prions and how they cause disease."
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