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early work on tissue culture by a pioneering female cell biologist First edition of 'the first German textbook that provided detailed instructions on tissue culture methods and indicated how they might be applied for cancer research', by the pioneering cytologist Rhoda Erdmann (Ogilvie, Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, p. 424). Rare, with only one institutional copy listed in WorldCat, at the University of Groningen. Erdmann (1870-1935) struggled throughout her career, despite being recognised by her peers as a talented and forward-looking researcher. After qualifying in 1907, she worked at the University of Munich and did experimental cell research at the Helgoland and Naples zoological stations for her dissertation. She then became a scientific assistant at the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases. In 1913 the American Lorande Loss Woodruff announced his discovery that single-celled paramecium could reproduce asexually seemingly indefinitely. Erdmann had been studying 'the importance of sexual reproduction for both nuclear division and death of single-celled organisms' and wrote requesting samples of his cultures (Ogilvie). Instead, her offered her a position a Yale, where she 'solved a number of problems related to parthenogenesis. She also updated her techniques of tissue culture under Ross Harrison, head of the Osborn Laboratory at Yale, who had developed new methods of culturing nerve cells' (Ogilvie). After briefly being held as an enemy alien in B

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