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Repetition of Dog and Rabbit Sera Experiments (image 1)

Title:: Repetition of Dog and Rabbit Sera Experiments (image 1)
Contributor:: Avery, Oswald Theodore, 1877-1955
Date:: 1 October 1942
Description:: Caption by Maclyn McCarty reads: "Experiment showing the effect of dog and rabbit sera in destroying transforming activity. The effect of dog serum was inactivated at a lower temperature than rabbit serum, and the same temperature differential was shown to obtain on testing the activity of these sera in depolymerizing purified mammalian DNA."
Location:: Box: 1. Folder: 4
Rights:: Courtesy of Maclyn McCarty.
Genre:: Laboratory notes
Format:: Still Image
Extent:: 1 pages
Relation:: Repetition of Dog and Rabbit Sera Experiments (image 2), 1942
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: CCAACX
NLM ID:: 101584575X65
Profiles Collection:: The Oswald T. Avery Collection
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584575X65
Story Section:: DNA as the "Stuff of Genes": The Discovery of the Transforming Principle, 1940-1944