Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Thomas Schippers, 47, a top American conductor who had a special reverence for the romantic repertory and a knack for reviving neglected works; of lung cancer; in New York City. Schippers was fond of saying that he wished he had been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera...
Pamela Jiminez, wife of Michael Jiminez, assistant senior tutor of North House, died Monday night of cancer after a prolonged illness. She was 30 years...
...Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and Dr. Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, have pioneered in work which shows "how genes are turned on and off," one of Ptashne's assistants said yesterday...
Syrian hamsters accounted for only a few thousand of the more than 43 million rodents used in scientific research last year, Homborger said. The association hopes that a drastic increase in the hamsters' use will enhance the effectiveness of cancer and other research...
...hamsters are particularly useful because, unlike other rodents, they rarely develop cancer in the absence of carcinogenic substances, Homborger added. If scientists expose hamsters to a substance and they develop cancer, they can safely conclude that the substance actually caused the cancer, he added...