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...Year also include the prodigious striplings of science. One is Biologist Joshua Lederberg, 35, a Nobelman in 1958 for his demonstration that viruses can change the heredity of bacteria, who is now deep in the study of a new science that he calls "exobiology" ?an attempt to obtain and compare life on other planets with that on earth. Another is Physicist Donald Glaser, one of the U.S.'s two Nobel prizewinners in science for 1960 (Chemist Libby is the other). Glaser's award came for his development of the bubble chamber, a quantum jump in the study of atomic...
...themselves molecular biologists. The objective of the molecular biologists is nothing less than to explain the inner chemical workings of living creatures. Every living cell, including those of multicelled animals such as man, has in its nucleus large and complicated molecules that control growth and heredity. Except in some bacteria and viruses, these molecules are made of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which James Watson of Harvard and Francis Crick of Cambridge, England, found to be two long chains of atoms linked together and twisted spirally. The links between the two spirals, often many thousands of them, differ slightly and constitute...
Ever since U.S. hospital authorities learned, to their horror, that dangerous, penicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus bacteria were floating merrily in supposedly sterile hospital corridors, no nook or cranny has escaped attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...Brookline's Brooks Hospital, Dr. Lind examined feathers in pillow stuffings that had been "sanitized" (washed, heat-treated and chemically disinfected) to Government standards. He found huge amounts of residual bacteria: up to 13 million organisms per gram. Most are probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth...
Investigators can find no evidence of bacteria in the food which is suspected of causing the recent outbreaks of gastric disorders at Adams House and the Union, John C. Morris, Sanitary Inspector to the University Health Service, reported yesterday. He emphasized, however, that the findings did not rule out the possibility of an actual disease...