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THE Squibb Biological Laboratories, New Brunswick, New Jersey, have established a new laboratory for the study of filterable virus diseases. Dr. Raymond C. Parker, biologist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, has been appointed head of the laboratory, which will operate as a unit of the Biological Division of E. R. Squibb and Sons. The new building is a continuation of a programme of expansion which began in 1938 with the dedication to pure science of the 750,000-dollar laboratory of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. Among the common diseases caused by filterable viruses are smallpox, rabies, equine encephalitis, measles, chicken pox, poliomyelitis, and the common cold. No specific product for the prevention of four of these diseases—the common cold, poliomyelitis, chicken pox, and measles—is yet available.
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New Laboratory for Virus Research. Nature 144, 504 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144504c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144504c0