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...mysterious poisons that appear in the bloodstream of severely burned patients and kill them several days after the original injury may not be so mysterious after all two Army medics told the Association of Military Surgeons. They have evidence that the poisons are simply the result of infection with bacteria that defy even massive doses of antibiotics...
...germs, which appear after a patient has been given a particular antibiotic for some time, and may make further treatment useless. There s no need, he suggested, to fear that the world's bacterial population will learn to defeat man's antibiotic weapons. The varieties of bacteria which have not yet shown resistance to antibiotics probably never will learn to do so, said Internist Dowling. These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis...
...steer so that there will be more meat, less waste, less expense in raising it. Some experts also believe that even the traditional feed-lot method of fattening cattle with expensive corn can be greatly improved. One development in feeding is the use of synthetic urea to nourish the bacteria in the rumen (part of a steer's stomach) so that a steer can be readied for market on cotton burrs, corncobs and even sawdust in its food...
...From the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, Dr. Frederick Traub reported that high-energy radiation from experimental atom smashers can beat the life out of tough bacteria and viruses. Using this technique, doctors may be able to prevent such diseases as hepatitis from being spread by virus in transfusion plasma...
Tangled Proteins. Life has mysteries that are just as baffling as those of inanimate nature. Danish Biochemist Kaj Ulrik Linderstrom-Lang pays his baffled respects to the proteins, of which all living objects are largely made. Living cells, even simple bacteria, make proteins by the dozens, but human chemists so far have not synthesized any. The proteins' molecules probably have long central chains of amino acids. These are coiled like springs, and all sorts of chemical oddments must be attached at precisely the right turns of the spiraling chains...