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...workbench while he was on vacation. He noticed that one of the plates contained a blob of moldy contaminant that had apparently grown from particles wafting in through an open window. Having settled on the jellylike nutriment intended for the cultivation of a type of bacteria called staphylococci, the fungus had grown into a flourishing mass...
...that the colonies of staphylococci around the edge of the gloppy mold had been destroyed. This observation set the scientist off on a series of experiments in which he demonstrated that the mysterious mold was able to kill off an entire range of disease-producing bacteria. Because this particular fungus was a member of the Penicillium group, he named it penicillin after its presumed active ingredient...
Sleaze is only sometimes sexual--or financial; in politics, there is a more important corruption, which spreads like a mold. Among other things, this fungus causes the agile politician to dance around repudiating things that he held sacred day before yesterday...
Even now, as his party portrays government as a fungus, Dole refuses to apologize for his beliefs. In New Hampshire over Memorial Day, Dole repeatedly told crowds, "We're not trying to devastate government. We're trying to downsize it." Nor does he apologize for his bargaining skills. "I think if there is a complaint, it comes from people who don't understand, first of all, leadership, and secondly, the Senate," he told Time last week. "You're not 'cutting deals'; you're out there trying to get something done. And I think most Americans expect...
...formation of blood vessels in a tumor through angiogenesis is another promising target for an anticancer drug -- because the process is so rare in normal cells. Clinical trials have begun on several compounds that interfere with angiogenesis. One such compound comes from a fungus that was accidentally discovered in 1989 when it contaminated cultures of endothelial cells in Judah Folkman's Harvard laboratory, dramatically curtailing their growth. This drug, says Folkman, is aimed not at curing cancer but at prolonging the period of time colonies of tumor cellsmissed by conventional therapy remain in place without spreading. "Suppose we prolong this...