Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Algae. Now two University of California researchers have discovered something that seems to stop the tenacious virus dead in its tracks: extracts from common red seaweed that have been known since 1964 to have antibacterial and antifungal properties. Acting on a hunch, Virologist E. Frank Deig and Graduate Student Douglas Ehresmann decided to find out if the extracts might also be effective against viruses. Since 1974 they have examined for antiviral properties 29 varieties of red algae common to northern California waters. Each variety was washed in distilled water, dried, boiled and homogenized in a blender. A 1 % solution...
...where the virus normally enters the cell. Human cells in culture appear to be otherwise unaffected by the substance and tests are already being made on mice and rabbits. But it will probably be as much as two years before researchers are certain enough about the safety of the extract to make it available to humans. The last promising technique for controlling herpes -daubing the skin eruptions with a photosensitive dye and exposing them to fluorescent light (TIME, July 12, 1971) -quickly dried up the sores and seemed to delay their recurrence. But it was largely abandoned when researchers demonstrated...
Other operatives then shipped the drug in vials to regional distributors, such as health-food shops, or mailed it directly to doctors and cancer victims. Though Laetrile, which is an extract from apricot pits, costs less than a dollar a vial to manufacture, U.S. patients paid as much as $50 for three daily injections...
...rest of the University's racquet wielders, a mere 17 windswept, lineless courts are available for what enjoyment one can extract after the near-hour wait...
...close-to-the-bone conflict that is stolen shamelessly from his own life. "I've always used material right out of my own life," he boasts. "Nowadays, if we're stuck in a scene, I just reach into my gut and extract something." Archie is based on Lear's Russian-Jewish father Herman, who really did tell his wife to "stifle." When Mary Hartman went to a psychiatrist, says the writer, "she told the same story I told my shrink." His daughter Maggie, 16, had problems with her boy friend; so they became an episode...