Word: theiler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant men did brilliant things about viruses and viral diseases. At Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Peyton Rous in 1910 proved that a filterable virus is the cause of sarcoma (a kind of cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite patience, Theiler in 1936 grew 176 generations of virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells,* weakening the virus with each "pass" and seeking a generation that would...