Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, M.D.–who discovered the infectious proteins that cause “mad cow disease” in cattle, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, and other neurodegenerative diseases–will ...

Prions have been getting a lot of press lately. Now, the researcher who coined the term and discovered the often troublesome misfolded proteins brings readers the story of his groundbreaking work. In ...

The New York-based foundation presented its Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award to John A. Clements, Julius H. Comroe, Jr. Professor of Pulmonary Biology and a professor of pediatrics at the ...