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...Would this adaptation help a spaceman to survive if he accidentally lost his oxygen supply, and 2) can a lowly sea-level type achieve the High Andean's resistance to oxygen deprivation-but in a matter of weeks instead of centuries? Helping Dr. Clark get the answers were Drs. Alberto Hurtado and Tulio Velasquez of Lima's Institute of Andean Biology...
This year, Dr. Lederberg, along with Drs. George Wells Beadle and E. L. Tatum was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in the heredity of bacteria...
...Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman picked 83 Bay area residents, regardless of their positions in business and industry, who were reported to them by their employers as having 1) intensive drive, 2) profound inclination to compete, 3) persistent desire for recognition and advancement, 4) continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions subject to time restrictions (i.e., deadlines), 5) habitual compulsion to speed up all their physical and mental functions, and 6) superior mental and physical alertness. For comparison they took an equal number of men of the same ages and physical types, but with the opposite personality type...
...Westminster and Victoria Hospitals in London, Ont., two brothers, Drs. John and Angus McLachlin, decided that the thing to do was to make the calf muscles pump the blood at full rate. To do this, they report in the Archives of Surgery, they attached stimulating electrodes (similar to the paste-on recording leads used in taking electrocardiograms) to the calves of patients undergoing long operations. A simple electrical pacemaker kept the muscles contracting and the blood flowing, clot-free. The Canadians believe that the method might save a lot of lives if enough surgeons...
...half of the $41,420 prize goes to Dr. Joshua Lederberg, 33, of the University of Wisconsin and the other half to Drs. E.L. Tatum, 49, of New York's Rockefeller Institute, and George Wells Beadle, 55, of the California Institute of Technology...