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All future basic research on scrapie must be with scrapie in the mouse, if only because this is such a simple, cheap, and comparatively short way of doing this work. My reaction to the preceeding papers was amazement at how precise and respectable research is becoming in this area, thanks especially to the efforts of people such as Dickinson and Gajdusek. Compared with scrapie research 20 years ago or so, coming upon Gajdusek and Gibbs’ research is like coming upon the periodic table or the double helix after studying some medieval text on alchemy. The whole subject is alive and moving; the problems are being dissected and understood.
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Mims, C.A. (1977). Comment/Chapters 1–2. In: ter Meulen, V., Katz, M. (eds) Slow Virus Infections of the Central Nervous System. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9883-0_4
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