| RefNo | EC/1968/13 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XVIII, 86 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Harris, Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed. Letter attached to certificate. |
| Citation | His early work clarified the role of chemotaxis in inflammation by showing that the monocyte, as well as the polymorphonuclearleucocyte, exhibited chemotaxis and that both cells responded to the same stimuli. He later made important observations on the growth of animal cells in culture, in particular demonstrating the critical requirement of connective tissue cells for certain forms of organic sulphur. He was the first to discover that some of the RNA made in the cell nucleus was short lived and to show that much of this short-lived RNA was involved in turnover within the nucleus. He has recently opened up a new area in cell biology by showing that killed viruses may be used to fuse together cells from different animal species. His studies on the hybrid cells produced in this way have illuminated our understanding of the mechanisms which control the synthesis of nucleic acids in the nuclei of somatic cells. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA667 | Harris; Sir; Henry (1925 - 2014) | 1925 - 2014 |