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In 2 desiccated preparations of Rous chicken sarcoma viable cells were not demonstrable by the tissue culture method. By the method of supravital staining with neutral red the reaction of the desiccate was unlike that given by the living sarcoma cells.
This work was begun in the Department of Pathology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and I am indebted to Professor Leo Loeb for the privilege of publishing those results along with the ones obtained here.
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