Word: celle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chromosome Breaks. Two cases obviously do not prove that "acid" is leukemogenic as well as hallucinogenic. For more than two years, however, laboratory evidence connecting LSD and leukemia has been mounting. Cell damage from LSD was first reported in March 1967 by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Within six months, so much evidence had accumulated that the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem. The geneticists were properly hesitant to report outright that LSD causes leukemia. Nevertheless...
...three judges volunteered to be admitted as prisoners for a day at the nearby Maryland House of Correction. As extra guards stood by unobtrusively, they were brought through the gates in handcuffs, stripped, showered, and supplied with blue prison shirts and brown pants. Then they were clapped into small cells in the cacophonous main cellblock. Prison officials laid on the full treatment, later declared one white-haired judge to be suffering from "suicidal tendencies" and sent him to an isolation cell. There he was protectively stripped of his belt, shoes, glasses and pen, and was made to eat his dinner...
THEN, strangely, the big fat black cell rang...
...repressor molecules" that Gilbert and Ptashne studied are proteins that stimulate a few of the genes in each living cell and repress the other genes. Since each cell needs only a few of its thousands of genes to be functioning at any one time, the repressors are neces- sary to turn some of the genes on and keep the rest switched...
...peered into the nucleus of a cell and unlocked its secrets, probed deep within his own psyche to dissect its motives, even learned to uproot a heart and replant it in the body of another. He has done much with his own world, good and bad, but he has not learned to conquer it-or himself. Yet it is in his nature, even while he struggles with the challenges of new frontiers, to keep on creating ever newer ones. Last week the latest frontier in man's long journey through history moved more than 250,000 miles from...