Word: injection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of the whole virus, but it is a thousand times less powerful. Evidently, the researchers suggest, the virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like a tadpole: the virus uses its tail as a stinger to pierce the cell and inject the nucleic acid. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have just reported photographic evidence that this is the mode of attack used by a mouse leukemia virus...
...passion for Communism. He pleaded for the U.S. to give Russia the atomic bomb, accused the U.S. of germ warfare in Korea. "Communism," he preached, "is doing something. It is following Christ's standards." He even attributes his vigorous health to the Reds; he and his wife inject themselves with a mysterious, Rumanian-developed novocain serum called H3. Anglican churchmen have long squirmed over the Red Dean's antics, but Dr. Johnson has at last done something to gladden their hearts. Saying that he wants to travel and finish his autobiography, he turned in his resignation...
...some cases, the next thing to do is inject radiopaque dye into the patient's arm or neck arteries and take an arteriogram, a rapid-fire series of X rays. (Two per second is the standard speed; six per second is now possible, and 60 per second may be soon.) These may show precisely where the clot has done its damage; they can give general guidance to the doctors and therapists who will have to work with the patient later...
...inject fresh money into ailing agriculture, next year's budget will allocate $4.4 billion for farm investment, a 30% increase. Even so, economic priorities, said Khrushchev, will remain the same: heavy industry, armaments, the space race...
...high hopes of a decay-free future once he has identified this protective protein, learned how to make it, and how to give it to people who do not naturally produce it. Another possibility would be to separate the antigenic fraction of the mouth germs that cause decay and inject it to stimulate active immunity through antibodies. This would amount to vaccination against tooth decay...