Enders, Weller and Robbins: cultivation of Lansing poliovirus in human embryonic tissues

What changed

Cultivated Lansing poliovirus in several human embryonic tissues outside nervous tissue.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact three-author 1949 Science paper. It establishes the reported tissue-culture result, not a polio vaccine, eradication, clinical efficacy or sole credit for all subsequent poliovirus culture methods.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact three-author 1949 Science paper. It establishes the reported tissue-culture result, not a polio vaccine, eradication, clinical efficacy or sole credit for all subsequent poliovirus culture methods.

Contributors

• John F. Enders · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Thomas H. Weller · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Frederick C. Robbins · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• PubMed record for Lansing poliovirus cultivation
• Nobel lecture on cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses

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