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HOMEWORK#2 10/22 due

1. The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to the American Stanley Prusiner for his pioneering discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection. Stanley Prusiner has added prions to the list of well known infectious agents including bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Please find his recently published paper concerning prion diseases and the BSE crisis. Please show the abstract on your homepage and tell me what is BSE.

Here is the abstract of the recently published paper of Stanley Prusiner, and that what does BSE means.

2.How many papers is referecned in Medline, on line biomedical abstract service, about prion? How many is concerning its structure? Can you find the paper describe the structure of mouse prion? Please show its abstract on your homepage.

There are 1306 papers about prion in Medline, 167 ones is about its structure. Here is the abstract about a paper concerning the structure of mouse prion.


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