Word: hemoglobin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico City in the Mountain States, and Dr. Hanley has recommended to the U.S. Olympics Committee that team physicians and coaches meet next summer to decide on the most feasible acclimation program. "But," he concedes, "when the flags are up and the runners are going around the track, hemoglobin and oxygen uptake measured in the laboratory doesn't seem to count for much. So we won't know the outcome until the race is over...
Carbon monoxide is a cumulative poison that has a strong affinity for the hemoglobin in the blood, putting it out of action and reducing the blood's power to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. "If you breathe 30 p.p.m. for eight hours," says Haagen-Smit, "5% of the oxygen capacity of your blood is taken away." Exposure to the highest concentrations found on the freeways knocks out the same amount of hemoglobin in one hour, and Haagen-Smit believes that 5% loss is too much, especially for car commuters with heart ailments, emphysema or other respiratory troubles...
...Carlson wrote to friends back home, there was some exotica as well: "The teen-age boy with hemoglobin of only 20% who looks as if he had been blown up with the helium gas used for balloons at the circus-only the skin of his leiTs is like old, dried, peeling leather"; the African whose homemade poo-poo gun had exploded and taken half his face with it; the difficult obstetrical cases, as for instance the pregnant patient who had to be operated on for a ruptured uterus. "The lady had come about 75 miles in trucks. When...
...fish are vertebrates; thus their genetic code has quite a number of sequences that have survived from the primitive fish that were the ancestors of all vertebrates. When fragments of human DNA combine with salmon DNA, they presumably find matching code sequences that control such common attributes as hemoglobin in the blood or an internal skeleton. Mice are mam mals, so they have more in common with humans (warm blood, hair, a similar reproductive system); and in the world of primates monkeys are so similar to man that long stretches of their genetic codes must be identical. The all-important...
...native of Vienna, Perutz completed his undergraduate training there before emigrating to England in 1936. Soon after arriving in England, he began the work which ultimately enabled him to describe the hemoglobin molecule. In 1940 Perutz received his Ph.D. degree at Cambridge University, and in 1954 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society...