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...Salk re-examined his straight-line theory of how the virus is inactivated to make vaccine. According to this, he can start with a virus brew so potent that there are 4,000,000 virus particles in every teaspoonful. But after 1½ days in formaldehyde there should only be 4,000 alive, after three days only four, and after nine days only a single active particle in a ton. If things did not work this way in practice. Dr. Salk argued, it must be because of ''fractional inactivation." This might result from the clumping of virus particles...
...mount as savage an attack on his country's new nationalist ruling class as the most delirious Liffeyside rabble-rouser could croak for. When in another mood, as in a spine-stiffening tale of men ratting and fighting against Britain's unforgotten Black and Tans, he can brew the strong, peat-smoked stuff of Irish patriotism. But most of these stories, dealing with humble Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast...
Wharton had the misfortune of meeting up with Jebsen in the 880, and the fleet senior defeated him by some 30 yards. Doug Brew of the Green was second. Wharton had a 1:57 for third...
...representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength -in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate a higher animal to produce antibodies. Because in the Salk formula the virus types are mixed, the Salk vaccine is really three vaccines in one, effective...
...ground, somewhat different techniques are used. Snowdrifts on TV are actually masses of plastic flakes in solid form; snowy window sills are shaped from a coarse dairy salt, then sprayed with water to give it a smooth, rounded look. To simulate frost on a windowpane. the technicians brew a mixture of beer and Epsom salts and paint it on the glass...