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...else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly pear land, pinned their deadly eggs on the plants...
Most people do not think of microscopic bacteria as plants, any more than they think of amebae, clams and sponges as "animals." But practically all biologists class bacteria as plants. Some plants can be patented. Last week Technology Review, M. I. T.'s bouncing monthly magazine, had itself a chuckle as it told of a recent attempt to patent a bacterium...
...Court of Customs and Patent Appeals went Researcher Arzberger. He produced drawings to show that his Clostridium had such characteristic plant features as vegetative cells, spores. The court observed that in the one-celled world the line between animals and plants is vague, that bacteria behave rather like animals. Arzberger showed that scientists nevertheless class bacteria as plants. Thereupon the court produced its clincher: the Congressmen who passed the plant patent law were not scientists...
...magnifications (105,000 diameters) of vinylchloride polymer, a rubberlike synthetic, show a mottling of dots which scientists assume to be actual molecules; 25,000-diameter pictures of soft face-powder granules reveal the jagged projections which make them cling to the skin. Electron photographs of typhoid germs and intestinal bacteria disclose delicate, wavy filaments which may be their means of locomotion...
...announced by Drs. Joseph Stokes Jr. of U. of Pa.'s medical school and Geoffrey William Rake of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research. They obtain active virus from the blood or throat washings of measly moppets, treat this material with ether or by filtering to remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane, grind it, mix it with broth, centrifuge...