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...sounds like vintage Hollywood. Driven from the university by Italy's Fascists just before World War II, a brilliant young Jewish biologist persists in her pioneering research into the nervous system, using makeshift equipment in a farmhouse bedroom. Food is so scarce that after experimenting on chicken embryos, she whips the leftover yolks into omelets. But she perseveres. Invited to work in the U.S. after the war, she meets a young biochemist, and together they launch a new field that promises hope for everything from cancer to burns...
Says Team Member Robert Weinberg, an M.I.T. and Whitehead Institute biologist who has done pioneering work in cancer genetics: "Once you understand the origins of a disease, you can work toward its prevention or cure...
...fresh produce. Since it can be used only on harvested crops, pesticides will still be needed in the fields. Moreover, say opponents, the low level of radioactivity set by the FDA for produce (100 kilorads) is not strong enough to slow the ripening of most fruits and vegetables. Plant Biologist Noel Sommer of the University of California at Davis has concluded that 200 kilorads is needed to retard the growth of gray mold on picked strawberries, and at that level the berries turn squishy. Other claimed advantages may have drawbacks. Irradiation "can kill the organisms that produce the signals...
...Yale biologist, Ross G. Harrison, unveiled his concept of a "sculptor" and "master builder" within each living cell. The sculptor, The Times said, "molds the aboriginal clay of life into his own image," while the master builder "organizes the stuff of life into its various tissues and organs...
...official statements were greeted by widespread skepticism. Declared Biologist Ian Redmond, who knew both Fossey and McGuire and spent two years at the camp: "The charge is nonsense. They've concentrated on trying to find someone who is not a Rwandan." Others questioned whether, if he was really implicated, McGuire would have remained at the camp for seven months and whether he could have expected to gain very much by stealing scientific data to which he already had access. And besides, they argued, McGuire had been in Rwanda just five months at the time of Fossey's death, knew only...