Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism Act is the exclusive prerogative of the Minister of Justice, Johannes Balthazar Vorster, and cannot be tested in the courts. Appeal can be made only to the Minister himself, who is not likely to reverse his decision. Vorster has described the 20,000-member student union as a "cancer... tainted with Communism" and has attacked it for advocating integration in the universities and for electing Nobel Prize Winner Albert Luthuli as its honorary president...
Bloch found that by exposing cancer cells from a mouse to guinea pig antibodies, he could protect the malignant growths from the guinea pig's other defenses. Although he focused his study on a single type of cancer, he said yesterday that the results "could apply equally well to a whole host of tumors in animals...
...said, the animal secretes at least two chemical antibodies, called gamma-1 and gamma-2. The gamma-2 molecule acts rapidly to attach itself to the walls of tumor cells. and with the aid of chemicals in the blood it breaks open the cell membrane, often killing the cancer...
...gamma-1 compound normally serves an entirely beneficial function. In this case, however, it also attaches itself to the cancer cells. But is unable to pierce their outer membranes...
...result, the cells become covered with thousands of gamma-1 molecules. Thus the other, more effective gamma-2 antibodies can find no place to attach themselves and are totally unable to act. With their coating of inactive gamma-1 antibodies, cancer cells feed, grow and spread...