Complex sentence: Frank O. Bastian of Louisiana State University first discovered "Spiroplasma"-like inclusions in the brain of a CJD patient during an autopsy in 1979 and has hypothesized that this bacterium could possibly be the cause of the TSEs.
Split into simpler sentences: Frank O. Bastian of Louisiana State University first discovered "Spiroplasma"-like inclusions in the brain of a CJD patient during an autopsy in 1979. He hypothesized that this bacterium could possibly be the cause of the TSEs.