Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Day, Cancer. Separating the synthetic DNA molecules from the natural ones, the researchers sent frozen samples to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, where Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer tested them for biological activity...
Thus some day, he speculates, man may be able to create artificial genes to replace missing ones in persons suffering from genetic diseases. The same technique could have other far-reaching effects. The polyoma virus, which produces a variety of cancers in many animals, is almost identical in size and complexity to Phi X 174. "If one can take the polyoma DNA and modify it in the test tube by implanting alternate genes," says Kornberg, "some of these could prevent the growth of cancer cells...
...exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself. She eventually flees back to her New England home town, where a Christmas-card snowfall makes everything pure and clean again, just like...
...average hospital stay is two weeks, then by occupying a bed for a year, such a patient has kept 26 others out of the hospital, others who are salvageable, as this man is not. With the present critical shortage of hospital beds, the admission of patients, even those with cancer, may be delayed for some weeks, possibly long enough for the disease to progress from the curable to the incurable state. Thus we may sacrifice those who can be saved to those who cannot. Can anyone believe in the situation I have described, that first things were truly put first...
...first place, it is startling to observe how a single procedure can turn a controversy that might have been limited to a laboratory into everybody's business; for example, the injection of live cancer cells into unknowing, unconsenting subjects. Suddenly almost everyone begins to watch the medical scientist: his privacy and the privacy of his laboratory are abruptly invaded. The invasion of privacy works in two directions; it can involve the investigator no less than the subject...