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Other experiments based on the RNA-protein theory may demonstrate actual chemical memory transfer. Among the most publicized are those of University of Michigan Psychologist James McConnell and Neurochemist Georges Ungar of the Baylor College of Medicine. McConnell works with planaria, or flatworms, conditioning them by electrical shock to contract when a light is flashed. He then grinds them up and feeds them to untrained worms. Once they have cannibalized their brothers, the worms learn to contract twice as fast as their predecessors. What may happen, McConnell theorizes, is that the first batch of worms form new RNA, which synthesizes...
...Those claims have never been completely accepted, however, because other scientists were not always able to duplicate the experiments, and no one could identify the exact nature of the so-called "memory molecules" necessary for such a transfer. The skeptics may have to reconsider their stand. Last week a Baylor University scientist reported that he had identified and synthesized a chemical that produces a specific memory in rats and mice: fear of the dark...
Suspect Virus. A link between cervical cancer and poor hygiene, plus lack of circumcision, would be easier to explain if an infectious agent could be implicated. Researchers at Baylor University have found a suspect. It is a virus technically known as Herpesvirus hominis, Type II, closely related to the herpes virus, Type I, which causes fever blisters around the mouth. Type II infects the genital regions of both sexes; it is found in smegma, the secretion under the foreskin, and is readily transmitted during sexual contact...
...operations were performed, with 50 or more surgeons taking part. Complicated open-heart techniques, including the implantation of artificial heart valves and pacemakers, were involved. Even so, the average cost to Medicare for each operation was roughly $380-a modest figure. All the money, said DeBakey, went to Baylor College of Medicine, which pays the surgeons' salaries...
...When Dr. Denton A. Cooley implanted an artificial heart in a man last month, he acted without prior review by the appropriate committees of Baylor University College of Medicine, the college's board chairman charged. In a letter to the National Heart Institute, Baylor's Leonard F. McCollum said that the heart device had been developed under a grant from NHI, and was therefore subject to federal guidelines governing experimental application to human subjects. McCollum informed the institute that Dr. Domingo Liotta, the Argentine-born researcher who worked on the device, "has been suspended from all activities...