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...Geneticist Maimon J. Cohen and his colleagues were making a highly preliminary report. They had found this phenomenon in the blood of only three people. From two healthy subjects they drew blood, then grew the white cells in the test tube. When LSD, in varying concentrations, was added for durations of four to 48 hours, the number of broken or otherwise damaged chromosomes was increased as much as tenfold over the small number usually found in healthy cells...
...trust to luck, worry throughout the pregnancy, and blame themselves if a defective child was born. The other was to have no child. Now, by using charts of probabilities worked out by Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts of London's famed Guy's Hospital, a geneticist can give parents an accurate appraisal of what their chances are of producing a second defective...
...When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...
Dead Fleas. Most Australian scientists are convinced that myxomatosis is still the best weapon against rabbits. Geneticist William Sobey, for one, is attempting to breed a more potent type of virus by combining existing strains. He has already produced some "interesting results" but needs lengthy field tests...
Suspecting that Australian mosquitoes now carry a relatively harmless strain of myxomatosis virus that imparts immunity to more deadly strains in the rabbits it infects, the geneticist has been seeking-another virus carrier. But his search has been plagued by misfortune. Impressed by the European flea, which has successfully spread myxomatosis over the Continent, he had some 12,000 fleas shipped to Australia. Only nine of the little pests withstood the trip...