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Most successful were Drs. James A. Baker and Malcolm S. Ferguson of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Princeton, who raised a group of "axenic" Mexican platyfish (Platypoecttus maculatus) from birth to full maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Germless Life | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Harvard Zoological Club. "The Inflator Mechanism of the Puffer, Spheroides maculatus." Mr. Selig Hecht. Zoological Laboratory, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What is Going on Today | 12/11/1914 | See Source »

...Harvard Zoological Club. "The Inflator Mechanism of the Puffer, Spheroides maculatus." Mr. Selig Hecht. Zoological Laboratory, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Calendar | 12/5/1914 | See Source »

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