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... Facing the dilemma of whether to choose a career in clinical research or stay in the laboratory, and weighing his future in postwar Europe, Jacob accepted an offer from Eugene In. Opie of the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania in Philaclelphia.
From page 170...
... This last work caught the interest of Karl Landsteiner, the discoverer of the blood groups, who invited Jacob to the Rockefeller Institute as his assistant. His two years there, from 1926 to 192X, were a profound learning experience.
From page 171...
... One strain, the AKR mouse, carries a leukemia virus and has become one of the most common and widely used animals in many diverse experimental studies. The second approach was to attempt to isolate viruses from the various types of leukoses then available.


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