Famous Laboratory

ID: 3151 ~ Source: Northern Regional Research Laboratory of Peoria, Illinois, postcard, 1943.
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Famous Laboratory

Allene Jeanes worked at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory for 35 years. Dextran is not the only life-saving drug mass-produced by NRRL; the laboratory is most well-known for discovering how to mass-produce penicillin.

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