Fatal protein.

Date:
1993
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An account of how connections were made between the causation and pathology of a range of brain degenerative diseases, starting in the early 1950s with Kuru, and continuing to the present day with the search for the causes of Alzheimer's disease. Describes how the 1989 discovery of prions (proteins responsible for brain destruction) came out of research into Gerstmann-Strussler.

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[Place of publication not identified] : Channel 4 TV, 1993.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

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