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...most important basic medical discovery of the present generation"; - so one scientist called it. He referred to the theory that mice may get cancer from a virus in their mothers' milk.* This was reported in Science last week by Geneticist John Joseph Bittner, of the Jackson Memorial Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., where scientists have worked on this problem for more than seven years...
...Bittner used two families of mice; in Family A, almost all the mice for many generations developed cancer of the breast; in Family B, cancer seldom occurred...
...Bittner took a number of newborn mice from Family A away from their cancerous mothers, set them to suckle immune mothers in Family B; then he set babies from the immune family to the breasts of females in the cancerous family. (None of these "wet nurses" had yet developed tumors.) Result: the young mice switched their cancer tendencies. Those who came from healthy stock developed cancer; those who were ordinarily doomed to cancer remained healthy. Their offspring were also healthy...
...they showed that an inherited tendency to breast cancer may possibly be averted by simple precautions. Said Dr. Bittner last week: "It may be that women with breast cancer in their family should not nurse their daughters...
...Lackawanna plant, workers accepted the terms with a whoop, convinced that the settlement was a triumph for S. W. O. C. Said Van A. Bittner, regional director and chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine...