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While Gemini 4 orbited the earth, Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White did not brush after every meal, but in stead chewed a new gum called Trident, which helps clean teeth by using enzymes to break down dirt and bacteria...
...liver was washed free of its own blood, cooled down to 54° F., and injected with antibiotics to kill any bacteria that might be present. Tubes were inserted in one of the patient's main arteries and one of his large veins; his own heart served as the pump to send his blood into the pig's liver. From there, the blood went back into the patient's vein after being rewarmed along the way to a normal...
Social Parasite. Uruguayan scientists working for the department stumbled on the secret while they were searching for a fungus or a bacteria that might be fatal to fire ants. They discovered that in Uruguay, where the ants are native they are no serious problem. Often they are so weak that they build flimsy nests which wash away in the rain. This suggested not an ant killer but a social parasite...
Gorini has done extensive investigation of the effect of streptomycin, an important drug on the translation of genetic formation in bacteria. His colleagues believe his findings will lead to new discoveries in the study of disease, since genetic-coding he has studied in backing is essentially the same as that in cells...
...environment, "but now," added Dr. Salk, "man is bringing vast and rapid changes within his environment, and is producing an effect in which it is man, not nature, who exerts a dominant influence on the future course of his evolution." From fallout to new and drug-resistant strains of bacteria, not all that influence is beneficial. Medicine of the future will require "a basic science that will suggest ways to deal much more with man as a whole in his social situation...