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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teeth grow from tiny buds (tooth germs) which are present in the gums at birth. Drs. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded...
...intrepid pioneers of science announced a stomach-shaking discovery last week. Drs. Alfred H. Free and Jack R. Leonards, both biochemists at the medical school of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, first stuffed themselves on horse meat. (They would have preferred beef but lacked the ration points.) Then for several days they fasted, testing their blood at intervals...
...Drs. Morton C. Kahn, William Celestin and William Offenhauser, casting about for new ways to destroy mosquitoes that might be safer and cheaper than insecticides, hit on the idea of luring them into traps. The first step was to find out whether mosquitoes are able to communicate with each other...
...current Journal of Allergy, Drs. Bernhard Zondek (famed co-discoverer of a standard test for pregnancy) and Yehuda M. Bromberg of Jerusalem's Hadassah University Hospital tell how they made hormone skin tests on 165 women, about half of whom were suspected of hormone allergy. Sure enough, 68 of them proved auto-allergic. Encouragingly, however, the doctors found that graduated shots of the offending hormones would cure 50% of the auto-allergies and markedly improve another...
...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...