What would happen , he wondered , if you injected a healthy animal with brain tissue from a kuru victim ?
他想知道,如果健康动物注射了库鲁病尸体的脑组织后,将会出现什么情况?
The most exciting thing that happened to me yesterday was the postman 's delivering a brace of the remarkable kuru toga pencils , which contain actual gears that rotate the lead through a few degrees every time it touches paper .
While gajdusek and his colleagues were investigating kuru , other scientists were pursuing the secrets of growth and maturation -- and making equally thrilling discoveries .