How Studying Chicken Butts Cracked The Inner Workings Of Our Immune System
Cooper didn’t know it at the time, but the key to cracking the puzzle had already been published years before, to little fanfare, in the journal of Poultry Science. “That journal changed the world, says Gregg Silverman, a pathologist at the NYU Langone Health. Now, more than sixty years later, the research has won a Golden Goose award for its unlikely contribution to modern medicine. The author, Bruce Glick, never set out to upend immunology....