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...plot from here on resembles something built of blocks by a small boy, and then partly destroyed by his dog. Ambrose is deviled by a beautiful lady biochemist, a drug-taking mystic and an evil-looking chauffeur. Someone tries to mash him with a big black car. A tribe of monkeys is mislaid and a corpse or two are discovered. A tappy old duchess who collects causes starts to lecture on the class war at a workers' meeting, absentmindedly switches to a harangue on the dangers of premature burial...
...equipment weight could be cut down. One suggestion for maintaining a near-perpetual cycle of food: use the pilot's wastes as food for algae, which will convert them into something edible, also consume carbon dioxide and make oxygen. Another possibility is foreseen by the Navy's Biochemist Dr. Carl Clark, who offers the spaceman a diet of sugar water, enriched with vitamins, minerals and protein factors, and thickened with shredded paper towel. It would taste just as good, he says, every time around...
Last week in San Francisco, Biochemist Arthur Lindenbaum of the Argonne National Laboratory told the American Chemical Society how he and his colleagues had tested a chemical that flushes out strontium selectively and spares the body's calcium. Used so far only in rats (no human victims of acute radiostrontium poisoning are known), the chemical is a tasteless yellow dye, the rhodizonate salt of either sodium or potassium. Lindenbaum and his colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then...
Like many other scientists, Biochemist (no M.D.) Price believes that substances in the blood should be indicators of health and disease. But where many recent researchers have relied on enzymes for diagnosis (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957), Price picked the mucoproteins, a little-understood group of complex chemicals in which a sugarlike substance is combined with a protein. Almost the only thing known about them is that their composition changes when tissues are damaged. Price took a standard (but highly complex) fractionator. Into it he put 4 cc. (one teaspoon) of serum from the blood of his test subjects. After...
...Then the dinosaurs suddenly died off, leaving dominance of the earth to smaller, warm-blooded mammals. One theory is that the great die-off was caused by a sudden change of climate. Another is that the slow-witted, blundering dinosaurs could not cope with mammals that destroyed their eggs. Biochemist Albert Schatz of National Agricultural College, Doylestown, Pa. has a third theory: that the evolution of modern plants was the death of the dinosaurs...