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Other grants given by the University under the trust funds for work on the microscopic chemistry of cells, the growth and nutrition of bacteria, metabolism, circulation and the effect of drugs. Each department is supervised by an eminent man in the field here at the University, who has colleagues and assistants, paid out of the fund. Some of the money goes toward the equipment and laboratory space...
...institute's works, often in obscure fields, have mostly been hidden from the public, which has sometimes benefited only indirectly. Example: at the institute in Manhattan, overlooking the East River, famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added...
Last week, AEC Engineers John F. Newell and C. W. Christenson told about a promising solution of the waste plutonium problem. They found that certain "zoogleal" bacteria (which form gelatinous masses in sewage-disposal systems) have a hearty appetite for plutonium. So they filled a tank-with stones inoculated with bacteria, and trickled through it artificial sewage made of water, sugar, ammonium phosphate and flour. When the bacteria were well established, they were fed some of the deadly waste water. The helpful bugs removed from 90% to 95% of the plutonium. A series of such tanks could reduce the water...
Apparently the plutonium does the bacteria no harm. If the bugs get too "hot," the sludge in which they live can be dried to a small volume and disposed of more easily than a pondful of dangerous water...
...Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...