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Word: dioscorea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...Journal of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Russell E. Marker, veteran hormone researcher, reported that botogenin, a substance providing a short cut to one of the 37 stages in the expensive, laborious transformation of ox bile into cortisone, was found in a common yam of tropical America, Dioscorea mexicana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cortisone (Cont'd) | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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