Just published by Yale University Press: Stanley Prusiner's new book,
Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions - A New Biological Principle of Disease, is now available for purchase. Although I am not personally a big fan of Dr.
Oliver Sacks's work, his blurb on Prusiner's book is worth reading: “Stanley Prusiner is a brilliant scientist whose boldness and tenacity
enabled him, against all odds and despite near-universal skepticism, to
discover and prove the importance of a new class of disease-producing
agents—prions—a discovery as fundamental as that of bacteria and
viruses. Prions, by subverting the brain’s own proteins, may play a
crucial role in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative
diseases—and perhaps afford a clue to their prevention.
Madness and Memory is
the story of one of the most important discoveries in recent medical
history, and it is also a vivid and compelling portrait of a life in
science." Special thanks to
Dr. Mark Cohen for alerting me to the publication of this new account of a seminal discovery in biological science.
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| The bookish Dr. Mark Cohen |
Shannon Curran, MS with her dissection Shannon Curran, a graduate student in the Modern Human Anatomy Program at the University of Co...
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