The history of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia, and the Archives
that capture it, are a somewhat anomalous and little-known link in the history of American …

Conclusion In summary, the creation and maintenance of the Wistar Rats as standardized
animals can be attributed to the breeding work of Helen Dean King, coupled with the …

My work on this project brought me into contact with many social worlds, ranging from
libraries to laboratories, and I managed to incur significant debts in all of them. The seeds …

During the summer of 1954, Director CC Little invited all the academic descendants of WE
Castle (1867-1962) to come to Bar Harbor and help celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of …

" Rat" refers to a wide variety of small animals of the family Rodentia. They tend to have
coarse fur in dull colors such as brown and black, hairless tails, and powerful incisors, with …

MERICANS played an extraordinarily important role in the formative period of modern
genetics—the years immediately following 1900. By the First World War this new sub …

THE year that just ended marked the 100th birthday coat color characters in mice (Cuénot
1902); Gregory Bateson and ER Saunders published their work show-of mouse genetics. In …

This reference series will provide all researchers using laboratory animals with
comprehensive practical information on the various species. Each title in the series is …

Many accounts describe the 1950s, when rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) were used in
studies to develop a vaccine against polio, as the time when these animals became widely …

The third edition of The Laboratory Rat features updated information on a variety of topics,
including rats as research models for basic and translational research in areas such as …