But I had no opportunity to be depressed by Delbruck’s characteristic bluntness, for the poliomyelitis congress was an unparalleled success.

Thanks to Luria and Delbruck, I now saw how we could use bacteria models to answer that.

The findings will probably interest people designing pain-relieving drugs, says molecular neurobiologist Gary Lewin of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.