Salk

American

[sawk, sawlk] / sɔk, sɔlk /

noun

Jonas E(dward), 1914–95, U.S. bacteriologist: developed Salk vaccine.

Salk British

/ sɔːlk /

noun

Jonas Edward. 1914–95, US virologist: developed an injected vaccine against poliomyelitis (1954)

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Salk Scientific

/ sôlk /

American microbiologist who in 1954 developed the first effective vaccine against polio, using an inactivated form of the virus. Salk's vaccine, which was administered by injection, was widely used until 1959 when Albert Sabin introduced an orally administered vaccine derived from a live form of the virus.

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It was intended for the greatest American artists, scientists, entertainers, writers, thinkers—Robert Frost, John Ford, Jonas Salk.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a historical counterweight, consider Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, who refused to patent it.

From Los Angeles Times

Researchers at the Salk Institute have now created a detailed epigenetic catalog that shows how inherited traits and life experiences affect different immune cell types in distinct ways.

From Science Daily

Salk scientists led by Nicola J. Allen, PhD, set out to learn more about what drives Down syndrome by examining proteins inside brain cells in mouse models of the condition.

From Science Daily

To better understand these effects, the Salk team first analyzed human liver cancer biopsies to identify which bile acids were present.

From Science Daily

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