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Madness and memory : the discovery of prions--a new biological principle of disease / Stanley B. Prusiner.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: xix, 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780300191141 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0300191146 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.92 B 23
LOC classification:
  • R690 .P78 2014
NLM classification:
  • 2014 G-496
  • WZ 100
  • WZ 100
Contents:
Growing up -- The beginning of an odyssey -- A plethora of theories -- The scrapie race -- Dr. America and the trembling cannibals -- The battle for tenure -- What's in a name? -- Lost in the Pacific fog -- The amyloid story -- Finding the gene -- Jousting with the press -- Deciphering human prion diseases -- What's in a shape? -- Turf battles -- Mad cow and other prion strains -- Stockholm -- The third judgment of Paris -- Epilogue : the quest for therapeutics.
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 610.92/PRUSINER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500030883

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

Growing up -- The beginning of an odyssey -- A plethora of theories -- The scrapie race -- Dr. America and the trembling cannibals -- The battle for tenure -- What's in a name? -- Lost in the Pacific fog -- The amyloid story -- Finding the gene -- Jousting with the press -- Deciphering human prion diseases -- What's in a shape? -- Turf battles -- Mad cow and other prion strains -- Stockholm -- The third judgment of Paris -- Epilogue : the quest for therapeutics.

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