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Pantothenic Acid apparently is a common ingredient of all living stuff. Professor Roger John Williams (Oregon State Agricultural College), who discovered the substance with his associate Carl M. Lyman, has found it in humans, worms, oysters, plant molds, bacteria and algae. Declared they: "It is probably safe to say that it is more widely distributed in Nature than any known physiologically potent substance." Data so far accumulated indicates that pantothenic acid's molecule is composed of long chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, that it contains no sulphur or nitrogen. The stuff is potent. A speck of Professor Williams...
...even less nitrogen than is soluble in whale's blood at atmospheric pressure. Peering through his microscope, Scientist Laurie discovered why. He found that whale blood teems with tiny free-swimming organisms, 20 millions of them per cubic millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers...
...clothing, and exercise has failed to show that these are important factors in immunity to colds. But there is one clue which Dr. Dochez and his associates, Dr. Yale Kneeland Jr. and Katherine C. Mills, hope may lead them to success. There is "evidence that several agents [viruses and bacteria] work together to produce the varied types of [respiratory] disease, and this evidence may lead to an efficient vaccination...
Last week U. S. scientists were sorry to hear that Felix d'Herelle, famed Canadian-born bacteriologist, had re-signed the Yale professorship of protobiology which he had held since 1928. A pioneer in the study of the bacteriophage (bacteria destroyer), Dr. d'Herelle wants to elaborate his work in the clinical field. For this he may go to the new institute for infectious diseases at Tiflis, South Russia...
...polliwogs. He, Christopher William Coates, had also gone into the Army instead of to college, but had kept up his study of fish during the after years in which he was earning a living in the radio business. The discovery set Fishman Coates to thinking. If the phage destroyed bacteria in aquarium water. why shouldn't it destroy them in human infections...