We see what we are trained to see, or must we? Some personal lessons from a brush with kuru research
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We see what we are trained to see, or must we? Some personal lessons from a brush with kuru research
It began in 1957 when I received via a colleague a batch of sera from kuru patients and some controls from Carleton Gajdusek. I was immensely excited, as was Carleton, when I found a quite remarkable elevation of some a and b globulin components in the kuru sera that seemed to be absent from the controls. However, our excitement cooled in the face of more data that indicated that the sera in qu...
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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.2008.4009