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George Palade, a pioneer in cell biology, won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in isolating and identifying cell structure. His research, which he conducted along with biologists Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, used electron microscopy to identify the functions of mitochondria (the powerhouse of a cell) and ribosomes (proteinmakers), as well as other cell components. Having emigrated from Romania in 1946, Palade became chairman of the cell-biology department at Yale in 1973 and then the founding dean of scientific affairs at the University of California at San Diego...
...Freimut Duve, a socialist member of the West German parliament, said, "Idon't see why one should be so pessimistic when weare witness to a radically Western-oriented,peaceful and successful revolution...
...Duve said some of these changes are alreadyin progress...
...Change, too, has its limits," charged Bundestag Member Freimut Duve, a member of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. "Lech Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
Without the understanding of cellular functions, explains De Duve, most modern drugs and disease control would not be possible. "We are sick because our cells are sick. We cannot make ourselves well unless we know what is happening inside our cells." In fact, most human diseases-from some hereditary disorders to such still incompletely understood ailments as cancer-are traceable to cellular malfunctions. The work of this year's Nobel laureates helps point the way toward their correction...