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Word: diaminopu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such work is slow and expensive: nitrogen 15 costs $1,000 for a single study. But already Dr. Brown's group have had one outstanding, success in their study of a cell's reproductive system. They used an artificial compound called 2,6-diaminopu-rine, not yet isolated in nature, which they thought had a momentary existence inside the cell. The organic chemists synthesized some of this compound and turned it over to the chemotherapists. They thought that it might have the sought-for "differential effect" on lawless cancer cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Frontal Attack | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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