Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand-bys, good and evil, battle it out at the Brattle again, this time not in the usual French, but in Portuguese. Being Brazilian, Cangaceiro's bandit villains are a motley compound of both cowboy and Indian, which makes them, as usual, much more interesting than the somewhat insipid "good guys...
...killer drug has been costly, timeconsuming. It is likely that only when the chemical peculiarities of cancer cells are known, said Cameron, "can we interrupt the process for reproduction by interposing chemicals to block the cancer cell's required 'food.' " Currently, researchers must apply one chemical compound after another to each of a dozen types of animal tumors. Once a drug seems effective, it is put through an exhaustive series of tests, so far has always proved to be of limited effectiveness. Needed first is a chart of cancer cell behavior to eliminate the present trial...
...Public Health Service announced contracts with five private laboratories for large-scale screening of 2,000 chemical compounds as possible cancer cell killers. Each compound will be tried on three different types of cancer implanted in mice...
...antidote against nerve gases-one of the most publicized weapons in the unused arsenal of chemical warfare-was an nounced this week by Columbia University researchers. A cheap chemical nicknamed PAM, it has proved 100% effective against gases that had always been 100% fatal in test animals. The compound's significance: it may nullify the hazards of nerve gas directed in war against either troops or civilian populations...
Armed with this knowledge, Dr. Wilson tried several known compounds as antidotes. They did not work fast or well enough, so he and a research team set out to design a completely new compound that would reactivate cholinesterase by getting close to the phosphoryl group and removing it from the cell's protein. PAM got its test when hundreds of mice were exposed to one of the most deadly nerve gases, then given shots of the compound. The results, reported the researchers, were "dramatic and certain." Not a mouse died. Since protein structure is the same in humans...