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...What we started to do," said Dr. Spiegelman, "was to find out how genes operate." Genes are infinitesimal bodies (perhaps single protein molecules) in the nucleus of every living cell, from bacteria to man. According to orthodox, "Mendelian" biology, they are the sole arbiters of heredity. When a cell divides, each gene divides too, and transmits a definite characteristic to the "daughter" cells...
...discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...
...Bacteria found in deep sea mud might soon make oil wells as buggy as vinegar works. Last week Dr. Claude E. ZoBell, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., announced that he was well along on a process to infect exhausted oilsands with these bacteria...
...formed from organic remains which accumulated on the sea floor. The mystery: How was it done? Almost all organic substances contain oxygen, while petroleum is largely hydrocarbons, compounds of carbon and hydrogen only. Chemists have been unable to decide how the oxygen was eliminated. Some thought that deep-down bacteria did it (TIME, Dec. 17, 1945), but others politely said...
Undulant fever (brucellosis) is caused by bacteria transmitted to human beings by infected cows, goats or pigs, either by contact or in unpasteurized milk or cheese. Hence it is most common in rural areas. Anyone who feels weak, tired, feverish and generally rotten should be suspected of having the disease-but detection is tough. Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis. Undulant fever seldom kills, but it may keep its victims wretched...