Multiple Choice
Stanley Prusiner received a Nobel Prize for
A) showing that some oncogenes are transcription factors.
B) purifying the protein responsible for TSEs and showing that no nucleic acids were involved in the infectiousness of prion diseases.
C) discovering the protein responsible for cystic fibrosis.
D) sequencing the human genome with shotgun sequencing.
E) demonstrating that expanding triplet repeats are responsible for some diseases.
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