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Experiments with rats, malformed by exposure to intense radiation during embryonic development, have made possible great strides towards finding a possible future cure for cerebral palsy, it was learned yesterday. Samuel P. Hicks, Associate Clinical Professor of Pathology, conducts the experiments at the Medical School, and in ten years has gained much new knowledge of the development of the mammalian nervous system...
Dramatic progress was reported last week in efforts to cure victims of massive overdoses of radiation, and to turn this new-won skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
Radiation in doses exceeding about 400 r. (for roentgen) is usually fatal because it destroys the bone marrow's blood-forming mechanism, and it incidentally suppresses the antibody reaction. Theoretically, it should be possible to cure many cases of radiation injury by injecting bone-marrow cells from donors while the patient's antibody production is knocked out. And in acute leukemia, when the bone marrow is secreting abnormal cells, it might be possible to destroy the marrow deliberately with massive radiation, then replace it with healthy marrow. It has worked in mice and dogs, but the human system...
...proposals that-if they got a bad reaction-were described as only suggestions to "study." During his visit to Moscow, Macmillan apparently became convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is obsessed with fear that the U.S. intends to attack Russia at the first opportunity. Macmillan's conclusion: the way to cure Khrushchev of his obsession is for the West to make public admission-at least by implication-that Soviet mastery of Eastern Europe is a "fact of life" that the Western powers do not intend to try to change by force. For doing this, the West might get new assurances...
...Columbia off Newport last September, was sold at a cut-rate price (estimate: less than $42,000) to six Scottish friends of Designer David Boyd who are bent on proving eventually that there is nothing wrong with Sceptre that a little tinkering will not cure...