Editor's Note: This paper from Professor Elvehjem's group at the University of Wisconsin was the first to demonstrate the essentiality of copper for hemopoiesis in an animal. Forty years later Professor George Graham's group at Johns Hopkins University found signs of copper deficiency in malnourished infants.
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