Word: rhesus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called because it was first discovered in rhesus monkeys, by the late Dr. Karl Landsteiner and Dr. Alexander S. Wiener...
comes from rhesus monkeys, in which it was first
...factor has been added to the marital equation. It is the Rh factor in human blood, discovered in 1940 and so named because famed Blood Analysts Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Solomon Wiener used rhesus monkeys in their early experiments. Exactly what the factor is, doctors still do not know, but they have devised tests to determine who is Rh-positive and who is Rh-negative, and have found that the Rh factor sometimes complicates blood transfusion. Last week Dr. Enrique Eduardo Ecker of Cleveland's Western Reserve University advocated premarital tests for the factor. Reason: an Rh-negative woman...
Tonight's meeting will be devoted to the annual public address of the Association, delivered by Dr. C. Ray Carpenter, whose topic will be "Behavior and Social Relations of the Rhesus Monkey...
Scientists who have been experimenting with poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) virus have been considerably hampered because the only animal they could infect was the expensive rhesus monkey. Last year Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service finally succeeded in giving polio to ordinary cotton rats. That hurdle passed, he was able to pass the infection from cotton rats to mice...