1.   American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize for discovering prions, the infectious agent behind several brain-wasting diseases.

2.   American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize for discovering prions, an infectious agent that causes brain-wasting afflictions.

3.   American researchers Edward B. Lewis and Eric F. Wieschaus, and German Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard won the medicine prize.

4.   American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize for discovering prions, the infectious agents behind several brain-wasting diseases.

5.   Italian playwright Dario Fo won the literature prize and American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize for discovering a form of protein connected to brain-wasting diseases.

6.   Last week, American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize for discovering prions, an infectious agent that causes brain-wasting afflictions.

7.   On Monday, American Stanley Prusiner won the medicine prize.

8.   On Monday, the medicine prize was won by Peter C. Doherty, an Australian working in Tennessee, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel of Zurich, Switzerland.

9.   The medicine prize was the first announced in a week of awards.

10.   The medicine prize was won on Monday by American Stanley Prusiner for discoveries related to brain-wasting diseases.