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ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995)

ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995)

1909 – 1995

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Image source Michael Sterne (son of Tikvah Alper) · Private correspondence · CC BY-SA 3.0

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1967 CE

#12834

Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?

ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995)
ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995)
CRAMP, W. A.
CRAMP, W. A.
HAIG, D. A.
HAIG, D. A. & et al.

This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…