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Douglas R. O. Morrison
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Coppet, Switzerland
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Most of the world's experts on prions met for a workshop in Erice in August 1996. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the fundamentals of the science ofprions. It was for tunate that so many could be present given the pressure that they were under because of the data presented in March 1996, indicating that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, BSE or Mad Cow Disease, had penetrated the species barrier and was beginning to cause a new dis ease in humans--the new variant ofCreutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, nvCJD. This important and urgent subject became an additional major topic at the workshop. This is a book containing most of the talks plus the abstracts of those unable to find time to write up their talks. Almost all papers were written in the spring and summer of 1997 and contain material added after the workshop; thus Bob Will's paper on the new variant of cm contains data up to July 1997 and four contributions arrived in October 1997. In addition to the talks given at our workshop, there was a special joint session with the Planetary Emergencies Workshop where many distinguished scientists, including three Nobel laureates, discussed major issues affecting our planet. Six talks were given by us to this other workshop, five about prions, BSE, and nvCJD, and one on the broader issue of new epi demics by Luc Montagnier. Although most of the talks concerned research issues, there were a few special talks.
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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- Graham Jackson, Andrew Hill, Catherine Joseph, Anthony Clarke, John Collinge
Pages 197-202
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- Rudi Glockshuber, Simone Hornemann, Roland Riek, Gerhard Wider, Martin Billeter, Kurt Wüthrich
Pages 203-216
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- Byron Caughey, Gregory J. Raymond
Pages 217-224
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- Detlev Riesner, Klaus Kellings, Karin Post, Martin Pitschke, Holger Wille, Hana Serban et al.
Pages 225-243
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- Franco Cardone, Maurizio Pocchiari
Pages 245-252
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- Hans A. Kretzschmar, Armin Giese, Jochen W. Herms, David R. Brown
Pages 253-268
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- B. Ghetti, F. Tagliavini, S. R. Dlouhy, P. Piccardo, K. Young, R. D. Yee et al.
Pages 269-278
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- Heino Diringer, Elizabeth Baldauf, Michael Beekes, Muhsin Özel
Pages 279-284
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- Fabrizio Tagliavini, Giorgio Giaccone, Frances Prelli, Blas Frangione, Mario Salmona, Gianluigi Forloni et al.
Pages 285-289
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- Ruth Gabizon, Glenn Telling, Zeev Meiner, Michele Halimi, Irit Kahana, Stanley B. Prusiner
Pages 291-295
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- Katie Sidle, Bob Will, Peter Lantos, John Collinge
Pages 299-302
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- J. Collinge, J. Beck, T. A. Campbell, M. Desbuslais, I. Gowland, A. Hill et al.
Pages 303-304
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- Stanley B. Prusiner, Kiyotoshi Kaneko, Martin Vey, Glenn Telling, Michael Scott, Ruth Gabizon et al.
Pages 305-306
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Editors and Affiliations
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Coppet, Switzerland
Douglas R. O. Morrison