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With Stand-ins. To check and expand on these hypotheses, Lwoff chose to work with single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, because they have a single chromosome (whereas man has 46). As stand-ins for genes he chose viruses that infect bacteria (bacterio-phages), because their cores consist of nucleic acid. What actually happens Lwoff found, is not as simple as had been thought. The viral nucleic acid, in effect masquerading as a gene, might do one of two things after invading a bacterium: 1) stimulate the bacterial cell to produce hundreds of copies of the virus particle, and destroy...
...reassuring signs of the times is agreement upon what should not be the form of the struggle: war. The awful crescendo of the contest have been two world wars. Some heart may be taken in the certainly that neither East nor West can hopefully look forward to a bacterio-atomic war as the third great round...
...last week knew the formula for manufacturing the vaccine, which doctors have demanded since Henry Spahlinger first crossed medical tempers. But those in the know were reticent in admitting their knowledge. For detailed information it was better to write directly to Mr. Spahlinger at his Institut Bacterio-therapique in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the proud English folk who attended the extraordinary ceremony of revelation...
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