Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...normal cell to become cancerous reported a significant step last week. A high-powered team of six investigators from the National Institutes of Health and Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute announced that they had taken a virus that causes cancer in laboratory animals and had extracted the nucleic acid from the submicroscopic particles (only 1/100,000 mm. in diameter). This nucleic acid, when injected into test-tube growths of normal mouse cells, made them behave abnormally, as in cancer. The resulting cells, injected into hamsters, caused cancer every time. More strikingly, so did an injection of the nucleic acid...
...deoxyribonucleic acid) occurs in all living cells as long chains of molecules. In reproduction it passes on a "blueprint" governing cellular chemical events. Sueoka has shown that when a cell of the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardi, divides into two daughter cells, the new cells each contain half of the original DNA molecule and also a newly synthesized portion...
...camera direction is uniformly acceptable and occasionally outstanding, as is the sound-track that Brahms unwittingly supplied. And, to make up for the puerility of the love scene, there are several short scenes of rare film sophistication. A tense evening meal combines brilliant writing, direction, and camera work to acid, ironic effect. However, from bedtime on, the movie bogs down...
...Florida State University reported progress toward creating life in the laboratory. Experimenters have long known that when a mixture of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and water vapor (all probable constituents of the earth's primitive atmosphere) is bombarded with electric sparks or high-energy radiation, amino acids are produced. Amino acids are the building blocks that form the multitudinous proteins in living organisms, and Dr. Fox carried the process a step farther. When he heated a mixture of amino acids with polyphosphoric acid as a catalyst, he got big molecules with many of the properties of proteins, i.e., they...