Researching Dextran

ID: 3152 ~ Source: Image courtesy of “Celebrating 200 Years of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture (1820-2020).” National Agricultural Library, December 31, 2020. https://nal.usda.gov/collections/exhibits/houseag200th/list; Côté, Gregory L, and Victoria L Finkenstadt. “A History of Carbohydrate Research at the USDA Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois.” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 33, no. 2 (2008): 103-11. https://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/v33-2/v33-2%20p103-111.pdf. 
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Researching Dextran

Carl Wilham assisted Jeanes in her dextran research at NRRL. Dextran had already been in use for five years when this photo was taken, but Jeanes continued to refine it for future use.

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