Kuru memories from 1957
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Kuru memories from 1957
These and other letters, including a letter from Dr L. I. Taft reporting on the first brain the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) received, are not included in the published Gajdusek correspondence of the early days. On 4th February, John Gunther sent another letter to Gray Anderson in which he wrote, ‘The Government Anthropologist has visited Fore and informs me the Administration is losi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.4028