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Last week scientists moved a step closer to making the dream possible. In Palo Alto, two biochemists at the Stanford University School of Medicine reported that they had successfully synthesized a virus that could both infect bacteria and reproduce itself...
...coli bacteria, which are common intestinal microbes. Invading the E. coli cells, the DNA molecules directed them to produce hundreds of Phi X viruses, each complete with its protein coat. Eventually the invaded cells ruptured under their burden of viruses, killing the bacteria and releasing the viruses to infect other cells. The progeny of the synthetic DNA molecules were not only biologically active but could not be distinguished from natural Phi X viruses...
...come home for the holidays. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have banned meat imports from the United Kingdom. Australia has ruled that emigrants from Britain can enter the country only by ship, not by air, in order to diminish the likelihood of the virus' living long enough to infect Australian herds with the disease...
International Illness. British stock raisers suspect that the culprit virus came into Britain in meat from Argentina that was eaten as garbage by pigs on farms near that of Farmer Ellis. Because the incubation period is as long as ten days, a sick animal may infect thousands of others before showing signs of illness-thus the need for preventive slaughters...
While most U.S. corporations are continually on the prowl for ripe acquisition possibilities, merger fever is just beginning to infect Britain, which still abounds with inefficient, low-profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...