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Creation Date
4-8-2015
Description
Culture flasks, accession no. 68
Between 1927 and 1933, Thomas Rivers and his colleagues developed a method for producing smallpox vaccine. They used these flasks to grow vaccinia (cowpox) virus in cultures of living chick tissue. The virus could be grown on a relatively large scale, and it was the first time a virus had been cultivated in tissue culture of use in a vaccine for humans
Photo by Lubosh Stepanek
RU Department
The Markus Library
Keywords
Merrill W. Chase Instrument Collection, exhibit, microbiology, culture flasks, Thomas Rivers, The Markus Library