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Proteoglycans and Orchids: the Work of Vincent Hascall

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  • “Alan suggested that we take a summer and go collecting orchids in Central America and Colombia,” recalls Hascall

  • “Rockefeller University agreed to let us do it, and Alan’s parents gave us an old Renault Dauphin 2-cylinder car, and we drove from Manhattan down through Central America to Panama, put the car on a boat and went on to Colombia

  • In Colombia, on the Pacific Ocean side, we explored a region that had Vincent Hascall large, moss ridden trees alongside a road

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Introduction

Proteoglycans and Orchids: the Work of Vincent Hascall It was a new species.” Kapuler and Hascall named the orchid Platystele acutilingua (1) (see Fig. 1). For his thesis research, Hascall chose to focus on cartilage rather than orchids.

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