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Euglena gracille, a simple, one-celled organism--used in the laboratory to measure the level of vitamin B-12 in the blood of anemic patients--is now being employed in studies to determine the effect of metal deficiencies on nucleic acid and protein metabolism...
...Trujillo and secretary of the armed forces, who was suspected of playing a role in the plot. S.I.M. agents took the general to Nine, where he was left for days with his eyelids stitched to his eyebrows; he was then beaten with baseball bats, drenched with acid, exposed to swarms of angry ants, shocked repeatedly in the electric chair, and finally put out of his misery with 56 submachinegun slugs...
...fourteenth year at Harvard, Doty has made other significant contributions in the area of protein synthesis. In addition to his work with DNA, he is currently examining the role of RNA, the other nucleic acid, which is believed to contribute to protein synthesis by controlling the unwinding of the genetic information carried...
Anything goes. John George Haigh, who dissolved nine British subjects in acid after first quaffing goblets of their blood, collected $14,000 from the News of the World for an exclusive story of his grisly deeds. An attorney for a woman cleared of fatally poisoning her spouse accepted bids on her story (the Sunday Express won, for $35,000). Some years ago, a murderer sold his confession to a paper even as he pleaded his innocence in court...
...incubating ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein from normal red cells with immature cells from victims of sickle-cell anemia, Cleveland's Dr. Austin S. Weisberger effected a crossover: the growing cells picked up the normal RNA and protein and, with it, the power to make normal hemoglobin. Cautiously, Dr. Weisberger hopes that similar methods may be developed for treating cancers of the blood...