Assertion: prion's form | /r/HasProperty | infectious agent
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text: In 1997 Stanley Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his theory that a deviant form of a harmless protein could be an infectious agent, a transmitter of disease.
text: Most prions occur in a normal, harmless form, but there are abnormal or infectious forms.
text: In 1997 Stanley Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his theory that a deviant form of a harmless protein could be an infectious agent, a transmitter of disease.