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...work. Mathematicians are trying to break its four-symbol code. Chemists are trying to dig deeper into its structure. All sorts of biologists are looking for effects of DNA on the behavior of living organisms, and they are finding a wealth of strange things. Loose DNA can penetrate certain bacteria, changing them permanently into a new strain. Many viruses are packets of DNA wrapped in a coat of protein. When a virus infects a living cell, it leaves its coat outside. The DNA enters the cell and takes charge of its activities, issuing chemical orders as if it owned...
...thinks the "common" cup is dangerous to health [May 19], then why the longevity of priests who must consume the remainder of the wine after the people have finished communicating, thus taking most of the "danger" upon themselves? Priests are notoriously long-lived. The Holy Spirit is immune to bacteria. Christianity can, has, and will beat a sanitarian...
...Aleksandr Popov worked a bit faster, he might well have wrested from Marconi credit for inventing the radio. In 1904 Ivan Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for his work on the conditioned reflex, and four years later, Ilya Mechnikov won another for his studies of the destruction of bacteria by white blood cells...
Another possibility is "chemical adultery." Bacteria can already be subjected to "directed mutation" by means of a chemical, DNA (desoxyribosenucleic acid), extracted from the chromosomes. When this practice is extended to humans, certain hereditary characteristics of one person can be transferred to the reproductive cells of another person. Looking far ahead, Rostand anticipates a time "when each human infant could receive a standard DNA that would confer the most desirable physical and intellectual characteristics. Such children will not be the offspring of a particular couple, but of the entire species...
Unsanitary! has been a recurrent cry against this practice ever since the discovery of bacteria. Last week it was heard again, this time in official tones. The Kansas State Board of Health, which has had a regulation since 1912 against the use of common drinking cups, put the Communion cup in the same category-"a potential source for the transmission of communicable disease." Episcopalian Evan Wright, director of the board's Food and Drug Division, was irate at the abandonment in his local church of the alternative method known as "intinction"-dipping the wafer into the wine...