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...modern industry can never be sure what sciences it will need. In a new book, Petroleum Microbiology (Elsevier Press; $9.50), Professor Ernest Beerstecher Jr. of the University of Texas tells how the hard-muscled oil industry is both helped and bedeviled by lowly bacteria. To begin with, the oil itself was originally formed by bacteria out of organic remains sinking to the bottom of shallow seas. Bacteria still live in oil sands deep underground; many kinds of petroleum and oilfield brine are alive with them. One species lives only on the tops of salt domes, the telltale indicators...
Ferry's scientific research has ranged from the study of hemoglobin to immunal chemistry, and his latest endeavor, the outgrowth of this World War II work, concerns the bacteria responsible for airborne infection. He teaches no formal courses, but divides his time between tutorial, research, and the House...
...evidence that Gregomycin had any effect against bacteria or viruses, or any value (such as several drugs have) against some animal cancers or leukemia...
Electronic Sterilizer. A portable water sterilizer that kills bacteria by means of ultraviolet lamps inside a stainless steel cylinder was put on sale by Los Angeles Aquafine Corp. The 133-lb. unit can handle 7,000 gallons an hour. Price: household model, $140; industrial model...
Nuworld got its start in 1949 when Dr. Stanley Knight, a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin, tried using ultraviolet light to irradiate cheese-starting materials, the bacteria cultures that are curdled in milk to give cheeses their individual flavors. Knight turned his findings over to University of Minnesota scientists, who began the job of making a new cheese. Their base was the shepherd boy's familiar mold, now called Penicillium roquejortii...