Loring and Schwerdt, and their search for poliovirus
Loring and Schwerdt, and their search for poliovirus
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January 11, 2021 11:43 IST
Stanford scientists Hubert Scott Loring and Carlton Everett Schwerdt announced their successful isolation of poliovirus on January 10, 1947. Even though it was only 80% pure and extracted from cotton rats infected with polio, it was a breakthrough at the time and a giant stride in our continuing fight against polio.
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Type 3 poliovirus capsid (protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material), coloured per chains. | Photo Credit:
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Stanford scientists Hubert Scott Loring and Carlton Everett Schwerdt announced their successful isolation of poliovirus on January 10, 1947. Even though it was only 80% pure and extracted from cotton rats infected with polio, it was a breakthrough at the time and a giant stride in our continuing fight against polio.