Example sentences for: prusiner

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  • The paper was largely ignored, and it was dissed even by Prusiner, who admitted to a New York Times reporter that it was uncompelling.

  • The researcher who did Prusiner's lab work at the University of California at San Francisco quit over the publication of Prusiner's very first prion paper in 1982, arguing that Prusiner was overinterpreting the available data to push the prion hypothesis.

  • Over the next 15 years, Prusiner won over virtually everyone to his prion hypothesis--the lay press, the scientific press--but not the researchers in his field.

  • 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.

  • 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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