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52, Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives...
Last spring a five-man team of doctors at the British Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur, about 200 miles from Singapore, began treating victims of scrub typhus with the new antibiotic* called chloromycetin (TIME, Nov. 10). Chloromycetin reduced the fever in one day. But in two cases the...
82. Aerosporin, newly discovered by the research team of Dr. George Brownlee at Wellcome Laboratory, England, is: 1. A new fertilizes which hastens plant growth. 2. A new antibiotic which proved in tests many times more effective than streptomycin. 3. A new drug which helps keep pilots of supersonic planes...
Like scientists everywhere, Britain's were looking for a new antibiotic. They hoped for something good enough to put on the same shelf with penicillin and streptomycin.
Last week, after ten years and 1,000 experiments, stocky Scotsman George Brownlee, 37, thought he had something. His research team at Wellcome Physiological Laboratory, Beckenham, Kent, had produced a new antibiotic from bacteria (Bacillus aerosporus) found in soil from a market garden. The antibiotic is called aerosporin (pronounced a...