Multiple choice

Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a prion based disease.

Which among the following scientists was awarded the Nobel Prize for his study on the agent responsible for ‘mad cow disease’?

  1. Gertrude Elion

  2. J. Skou

  3. James Black

  4. Stanley Prusiner

  5. Paul Boyer
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Explanation

Stanley Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for the study on the agent responsible for mad cow disease.

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