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...body gets 20% to 40% of all its energy by burning up fat. But scientists have not known exactly how-or where-the body burns its fat-fuel. Last week a young (31) University of Chicago biochemist named Albert Lehninger reported a solution of the puzzle. His report at the American Chemical Society's meeting in Washington (see SCIENCE) won him the $1,000 Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award...
Scientists have known that it is enzymes which burn up fat, and that certain co-enzymes are needed to get the fire started. But the identity of the co-enzymes was unknown. Biochemist Lehninger discovered that the same enzymes which oxidize carbohydrates also oxidize fat. He found out where the burning takes place, too. In the cells of the liver (where half the body's fat is oxidized) are small, granular structures called mitochondria. The mitochondria, Lehninger announced, are the cellular power plants "or stokers or burners" for the combustion...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...
Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...
...four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada...