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...cancer, they must be absolutely certain of the genetic "purity" of their test subjects. Thus the biological community was rocked last week by the news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma. A puzzling enzyme uncharacteristic of the breed kept showing up hi the host animals, a common strain known as BALB/c. Careful genetic tests soon confirmed suspicions: the mice were not the purebreds promised...
...National Academy of Sciences not only signaled its agreement with that view, it issued a 500-page report specifying just what is meant by eating right. "Our committee's recommendations should not be regarded as assuring a cancer-free life," said Dr. Clifford Grobstein, University of California biologist and chairman of the NAS panel that released the two-year study, but "by controlling what we eat we may prevent diet-sensitive cancer." Among the recommendations...
...deserve his widespread reputation in Japan as an accomplished marine biologist, but as a budding ornithologist Emperor Hirohito may just have to feather his reputation some other way. During a recent visit to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, the Emperor dropped in on a special, eight-month-old friend-her parents were a gift from former President Gerald R. Ford during Hirohito's state visit to the U.S. in 1975. But Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved...
Hawking's father was a scientist too, a biologist who researched tropical diseases. Although his father encouraged him to pursue biology and medicine. Hawking avoided these fields because he thought they were too impercise. If he had been able to predict the explosion in molecular biology, however, the physicist says he might have chosen that route since it is "one of the most exciting fields in science today...
...Williams as a junior at the advice of another professor. He wrote his thesis under Williams, and after dropping out of Med School, joined Williams for graduate work. But Milkman found that his true calling led him away from entomology to genetics and he finished his research with another biologist. All the same, Milkman said he learned a "tremendous amount of biology" from Williams, whom he "regard as one of the greatest influences of my life...