Madness and Memory

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Madness and Memory
Madness and Memory
Author : Stanley B. Prusiner
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Publisher : Yale University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 29 April 2014
ISBN : 9780300191141
Pages : 344 pages
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Madness and Memory by Stanley B. Prusiner Book PDF Summary

The author, a 1997 recipient of the Noble Prize in medicine, describes the years he spent researching and demonstrating how the infectious proteins known as prions were responsible for brain diseases and how his theory has now become widely accepted in the science establishment.

Madness and Memory

Madness and Memory by Stanley B. Prusiner

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