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Changing the Species.-Some day eyes, complexions, stature, nose lengths may be changed by radiation. Professor Hermann Joseph Muller, famed biologist of the University of Texas, has played the X-ray on fruit flies making them produce strange, outlandish offspring. The pedigreed fruit flies (whose hereditary characteristics had been known for generations) suddenly brought forth anomalies with curiously colored eyes, unreasonable wings, radically bobbed hair antennae. New species came into existence, the special marks of the X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons...
...cancer expert Dr. Boris Sokolov, now a professor at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Said he: "Even Death should be thought of as a disease and not as something which is inevitable. Scientific and rational struggle against Death is the order of the day for the up-to-date biologist and doctor...
...Clarence Cook Little, biologist-president of the University of Michigan, to discuss Federal aid to State education...
Trachoma is a very contagious eye disease. The inner sides of the lids become sore and granulated; blindness often results. Up to last week the cause had been uncertain. Then Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese, famed biologist of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, revealed how he had caused the disease in his laboratory by using an evasive microorganism he had trapped in the blood of trachoma victims. The A. M. A. gave him a silver medal...
Married. George Philip ("Gyp") Wells, able biologist, son of famed Novelist H. G. Wells; to his father's Scottish secretary, Marjorie Stewart Craig; in London...