Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cancer fighters gained another inch or so in their Sisyphean progress? Much work remained to be done before anyone could be sure. Said Warburg, after discussing the action of the anti-enzyme: "It must now be found out by experiment whether such an anti-enzyme will inhibit the growth of tumors in the human body...
...purposes; there is little tissue between the bones and the camera, hence details photograph more sharply than with deep organic photography. Among the diseases that can sometimes be spotted by radiological palm reading: too much or little activity of the thyroid; nutritional disorders like scurvy and rickets; gout; cancer of the chest (which, like some other chest diseases, shows up as new bone laid down around normal bone); arthritis...
...Nobel Prizewinner (1931), Warburg is a biochemist about whom anecdotes crystallize. In the '305 the Nazis had winked at the fact that he was "non-Aryan," allowed him to keep on working in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Warburg's field was cancer research, and Hitler had a personal dread of the disease. Warburg could also manage the occupation authorities. When Berlin was first occupied, he lost his riding horses twice, once to the Russians and once to the Americans; he got them back each time...
...body and in plants, that act like catalysts (e.g., pepsin in the stomach). Previously, he had isolated eight of eleven enzymes that cause fermentation, then devoted his time to studying just one of them, an enzyme he called zymohexase. He found that the blood of rats with cancer contains more zymohexase than that of normal rats, and that the larger the tumor, the greater the amount of the enzyme...
...Since cancer cells ferment as they grow, Warburg had suggested finding a substance that would stop the fermentation. Now, he announced that he had found an "anti-zymohexase," and that enough zymohexase can be drawn from the body to make large quantities of the anti-enzyme...