Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservist in an Illinois Special Forces unit, who wore his green beret and Class A uniform while he burned his draft card in Central Park before newspaper cameras. FBI agents arrested Rader last week at his Evanston, Ill., apartment, handcuffed him before they stuck him in a Chicago jail cell overnight. Though Rader was released the next day on $1,000 bond, raised by friends at Northwestern, he faced a possible five-year prison sentence and $10,000 fine for burning his draft card, and a possible six-month sentence for wearing his uniform without official approval...
Despite the great variety of cells present in any living organism, each one contains the same number and kinds of genes, the heredity-bearing components that determine the nature of the cell. But since the genes are identical in all the cells, why do some of the cells form hair, while others go to make up heart, liver, brain and so forth...
...possible answer was provided in 1961, when French Biologists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod hypothesized that only a few genes in any cell were active in controlling the production of enzymes that gave the cell its characteristics. The remaining genes, they proposed, were deactivated -turned off by mysterious represser substances produced by other genes. Thus, the genes that are active in a hair cell may be turned off in a liver cell, where a different combination of genes is active...
Allergic Reaction. Probably the first human being to receive the enzyme was a boy in Chicago who was dying of leukemia. After infusions of partially purified enzyme from guniea-pig serum, his white-cell count decreased, and so did the swelling of some of his organs. But his red-blood cells were being destroyed as an apparent side effect and treatment had to be stopped. The boy died of his leukemia. The problem of purification remains. Even the presumably safer material extracted from bacteria, in its currently purest form, causes allergic reactions in mice-as it did to some extent...
Other winners were Dr. Keith R. Porter, professor of Biology - studies in cell fine structure; Dr. Jakob Rosenberg, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus -- Renaissance and Baroque art in northern Europe; Dr. Donald Stone, Jr., assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures- - French drama, 1500-1630; and Dr. John Tate, professor of Mathematics -- arithemetic algebraic geometry