A Long Shot on Cytomegalovirus :The Scientist [2006-12-01]


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A Long Shot on Cytomegalovirus Gerd Maul was frustrated. It was 1989, and the German-born researcher at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute couldn't develop antibodies to the nuclear pore proteins that had been a focus of his study for nearly a decade. With funding getting tight, he consulted a colleague, Sergio Jimenez, then across the street at the University of Pennsylvania, who worked with patients with the