Word: brookhaven
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...other centers are experimenting with ways to improve the efficiency of both nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis, the processes by which plants produce the proteins necessary for growth. One researcher has already succeeded in showing that plant engineering may some day be practicable. In 1972 Peter Carlson of Brookhaven National Laboratory managed to unite the cells of two species of tobacco and produce a new plant. Carlson, now at Michigan State University, is currently trying to improve food crops such as corn and sorghum. Other researchers are working to produce plants that have greater resistance to cold, an achievement that could...
Died. Dr. Lewis Dahl, 60, chief of staff of the Hospital of the Medical Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory; of cancer; in Upton, N.Y. Dahl's pioneering experiments, dating back to the late 1940s, revealed the link between hypertension and the quantity of salt in the diet...
Tentatively called a "J" particle by Ting's team, which used the 33 billion-electron-volt accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a "Psi" particle by Richter's group at the two-mile-long Stanford Linear Accelerator, it was the heaviest atomic fragment ever found-almost 3% times more massive than the proton. It was also, by nuclear standards, extremely long-lived. It survived a full one-hundred billionths of one-billionth of a second, or 1,000 times longer than other massive particles...
...victims' futures brightened immeasurably with the development of an effective drug treatment in 1967 by Dr. George C. Cotzias of the Brookhaven (L.I.) National Laboratory. The drug, L-Dopa, counters the major chemical defect in Parkinsonian brains, which is a deficiency of dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity. Thousands of Americans today are leading much better lives than would be possible without the treatment. But there should be many fewer such patients in the future-provided, of course, that Poskanzer wins...
...cerebrum. While the operation relieved the tremors and rigidity of the disease, patients could suffer partial paralysis and loss of speech. Now, most Parkinson's victims can be relieved by a drug known as levodihydroxyphenylalanine, or L-dopa. First used successfully by George Cotzias of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, L-dopa provides a classic example of molecular chemistry at work. Normal movement depends in large part upon the action of dopamine, one of the brain's most important chemical transmitters. Parkinson's disease results from a degeneration of the cells that help produce this chemical. By boosting...