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Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...
Wisconsin's big money-maker is a skinny, self-effacing biochemist named Harry Steenbock. Some 18 years ago he discovered that food could be enriched with vitamin D (especially useful in preventing rickets in children) by being treated with ultraviolet rays...
Then one day a German biochemist named E. G. Huzenlaub (now a naturalized British citizen) marched into Harwell's Houston office with the magic for mula. Today the Harwell plant at Houston produces 1,200 barrels of Huzenlaub rice (called "converted rice") a day, all of it sold to the Army & Navy. In the new process the rough rice is soaked in warm water, undergoes a vacuum treatment, then is put under pressure which transfers the soluble vitamins and minerals from the husks and bran coatings to the kernel. Next a vacuum dryer seals the vitamins in the kernel...
Professor J. B. S. Haldane, renowned biologist and biochemist: ". . . We have to see that every newspaper has at least one scientifically trained reporter, just as they have reporters learned in crime, sports and politics. We should try to urge that all newspapers have scientific and technical advisers...
...Famed Biochemist Henry Borsook found that Lockheed Aircraft workers' efficiency, morale and physical condition were approaching the danger point from . lack of meat...