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The Nobel Prize of 1997 went tofor the s...

The Nobel Prize of 1997 went to____for the study of prions (the causal agents of scrapie and CJD).

A

Gajdusek

B

Prusiner

C

Dulbecco

D

Bishop & Varmus

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