Biochemist Stanley Prusiner of the University of California at San Francisco won this year's Nobel prize for medicine for discovering prions, the infectious proteins thought to destroy the brains of people with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, cattle with BSE and sheep with scrapie. He first proposed the prion hypothesis in 1982.
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