Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...progress is advancing from the lab to the bedside. Factor VIII is now being extracted from human plasma and concentrated about 30 times. It is given by intravenous drip to victims of hemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease when they have crises of massive bleeding. Except in such emergencies, the usual treatment for all the clotting disorders remains a transfusion of fresh whole blood or plasma-not to replace blood that the patient has lost, but to supply the missing clotting factor and thus keep him from losing more...
RONALD SEARLE-Bianchini, 16 East 78th St. Searle has sharpened his pen for a vorpal bit of vivisection; the victims of his Anatomies and Decapitations in ink-and-wash-flatulent beldames with clinker eyes, lopsided popsies with liquid-cherry smiles-belong under glass in St. Trinian's biology lab. Through...
...heart of the project are the sweep-frequency receivers mounted on steel racks in the lab. Each receiver is simply an elaborate radio with a radio telescope for an antenna and lacks any sort of speaker for the sound to come out. Like an ordinary radio, these receivers can be tuned in on different frequencies; this is done by a small electric motor which mechanically tunes or sweeps the receiver through its entire range three times each second. In place of a speaker which would make the solar outbursts audible, each receiver has a cathode ray tube. The spot moves...
...Because they were promised jobs in their "field," the corpsmen were unprepared to find other work. Instead of looking around for other opportunities, they stayed home and cursed the organization that sent them, Said Judy Draper, 23, a sology major from the U. of Tennessee who found no lab work in Lapa: "When my job fall through, I felt the Corps had betrayed me, I didn't feel much like looking for other work...
...have similar substances, from which ABO grouping can be determined, in their sputum, saliva, nasal secretions, urine and seminal fluid. To prove it in his laboratory, Dr. Sussman got an assistant to lick a postage stamp and stick it on a piece of paper. This was left on the lab table, exposed to air, sun and dust. At the end of a month, one-quarter of the stamp's back yielded enough material to identify the licker as type...