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31. Discovering a Biologic Basis for the Neuropsychiatric Effects of Stress

32. Elucidating Key Elements in the Multiplication of Influenza and Paramyxoviruses

33. The Birth of Modern Surgical Anesthesia

34. Asthma Is an Allergic Disease

35. Rickettsia prowazekii Reproduces Only in Living Cells

36. Linking Late-Stage Syphilis to Dementia

37. First Comprehensive Analysis of the Natural History of Poliomyelitis

38. The First Drug for African Sleeping Sickness

39. Discovering a Cause of Bacterial Meningitis and an Effective Antiserum Therapy

40. The Birth of Modern Virology

41. Using Advances in Viral Tissue Culture Techniques to Produce a Safer Smallpox Vaccine

42. The Birth of the Concept of Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease and Creation of An Animal Model to Test New Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis

43. The First Blood Bank

44. Discovering the First Cancer-Causing Virus

45. Hematopoietic Stem Cells, and Unraveling the Immune Response to Tuberculosis

46. Influenza Is Caused by a Virus, not a Bacterium

47. Oxygen Therapy for Pneumonia

48. Discovering that Viruses are Made Up of Protein and Nucleic Acid

49. Discovering Dendritic Cells, Sentinels of the Immune System, and Harnessing Their Potential to Prevent and Treat Disease

50. Modifying the First Drug Against Syphillis to Treat Central Nervous System Disease

51. Developing a Novel Vaccine Against Yellow Fever That Remains Important Seventy Years Later

52. C-Reactive Protein: From Pneumococcal Pneumonia to Cardiovascular Disease Risk

53. The Founding of Clinical Chemistry

54. Discovering a New Amino Acid: Hydroxylysine

55. Developing Diagnostic Tests for Fanconi Anemia and Unraveling the Genetics of the Disease

56. Destroying Dogma: the Discovery of Reverse Transcriptase

57. Defining the Genetics and Biochemistry of Wilson’s Disease

58. Opening the Field of Intracellular Protein Traffic

59. Establishing the Scientific Basis for Using UV Light to Treat Psoriasis and Vitiligo

60. The Molecular Basis of Influenza and Paramyxoviruses Cell Penetration





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