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...basement of Harvard's School of Dental Medicine, Biochemist James H. Shaw and his assistants worked for more than ten years with cages full of white rats and cotton rats, with sugar-rich and sugar-free chow, with test tubes and dissecting boards. The twofold aim: to find out how certain sugars promote tooth decay, then to find a way to forestall it. The Sugar Research Foundation, Inc., set up by the sugar industry, bankrolled the project for a total of $57,000. Now, in the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Shaw reports his findings...
...Bovet moved from the Pasteur Institute to Rome's Istituto, which was able to offer him better facilities. The husband-wife team's current preoccupation: the chemistry of the brain, especially as it is influenced by mental illness and by drugs such as the ataraxics. For, believes Biochemist Bovet, the key to mental illness lies in chemistry...
Died. Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, 61, Czech-born U.S. biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars; of complications of myelofibrosis, a disease of the bone marrow; in St. Louis...
...mannered determination, e.g., to work his way through Evansville College, he scrubbed floors in a slaughterhouse. He hit on his present project in the summer of 1956, when he did not have time to finish some research work on amino acids at NIH before school reopened. Encouraged by NIH biochemist Filadelfo Irreverre, Silber asked NIH for a grant to carry on the work with his students back at Central. The grant came through last November...
This problem is discussed at length in a new book, Radiation: What It Is and How It Affects You, by Physicist Ralph E. Lapp and Biochemist Jack Schubert. The authors' conclusion: all kinds of radiation should be more strictly controlled by some authority concerned with public health, not by the Atomic Energy Commission...