Leighton Test Tube
notes: label: Description
content: The Leighton tube for growing cells on microscope slides was devised by Joseph Leighton (1921-1999), a physician with an MD from the Long Island College Medicine who conducted research at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, and taught pathology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Cancer Develops in Human Tissue First Time in Bethesda Laboratory,” Washington Post (March 23, 1956), p. 1.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0071.20
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0071.20
label: accession number
content: 1991.0071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Leighton Test Tube
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15.3 cm x 1.5 cm; x 6 in x 9/16 in