Word: amino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fieser has just returned from another trip-this one for the U.S. government. He went to Washington on Nov. 4 to testify that a patent on a process for producing D and L. Lysine, two varieties of an amino acid, should not exclude a separate patent on the L. Lysine process...
...idea for the diet originated ten years ago with Dr. Milton Winitz, 39, while he was working with amino acids in cancer research. The amino acids are the so-called building blocks of protein; theoretically, a man could live on them if he also got a seasoning of a few vitamins and minute amounts of other body chemicals...
Soon after Sputnik, Dr. Winitz began working on an amino-acid diet with Dr. Wallace L. Chan, a NASA consultant on synthetic foods. Now, with a $400,000 grant from NASA, they are continuing their research at Vacaville. There, each week, they make 30 gallons of their Human Diet...
Brewing the stuff is no simple matter. First, the water must be distilled, redistilled and further purified to remove all contaminants. Then each of 18 amino acids must be weighed out, to the thousandth of a gram, and dissolved. With the same micrometric accuracy, 16 vitamins are added, plus glucose, eleven salts, and ethyl linoleate-a fatty-acid substance. Finally, flavor is added. So far, only fruit flavors have proved practical. An attempt to give the volunteers a ration with a smoked-ham flavor failed because of interaction with the amino acids...
...pattern of Krebiozen was found to match that of creatine. Ironically, Krebiozen is much easier to produce than Dr. Durovic may realize; he uses benzene, in which creatine is highly insoluble, for extraction. Using plain water as a solvent for the process, he might get several hundred times more amino acid derivative from each horse...