What was the Nobel Prize awarded to Gajdusek for?
Creation of the first vaccine
Discovery of a new element
Work on the transmissibility of kuru
Discovery of insulin
Answer
Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for his work on the transmissibility of kuru. Kuru is a fatal neurological disease that is caused by prions, which are misfolded proteins that can cause normal proteins to fold incorrectly and clump together, forming aggregates that damage brain cells.
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