Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male classes in biology and chemistry at the West Africa Secondary School in Accra. "It's certainly a refreshing change," she says. "The boys here are much more enthusiastic than the girls were at Foxcroft. They pay perfect attention, and you can hear a pin drop during lab sessions." Ghana's volunteer teachers seem not to mind their long classroom hours-up to 24 hours per week-but complain about the lack of teaching aids, notably for science courses. "There's no electricity for physics demonstrations," says Penn State's Donald Groff, 22, who teaches...
Culture in Human Embryo. Then came a lucky break. The lab happened to have some poliovirus tucked away. This had hitherto refused to grow except in brain cells, which are unsafe as a culture for a human vaccine because nerve-cell proteins can kill the vaccinated person. Enders suggested growing it in cultures of muscle and skin from human embryos recovered in therapeutic abortions. It worked. Watching the cell-damage effect, the Harvard researchers could see that the virus was multiplying. The virus could still cause paralytic polio. But when serum from a recent polio patient was mixed with...
...research fellows, Thomas Peebles, fulfilled Enders' longstanding dream of growing measles virus (obtained from a prep school student named David Edmonston) in tissue culture. This time, aiming for a safe and effective live-virus product, Enders decided to keep control of the vaccine project in his own lab...
Chicago asked for $1.6 million a year to run the lab; the AEC estimated $600,000 was sufficient; and each side agreed eventually on $1.2 million. The Times regarded the difference between $1.2 million and $600,000 as profit for the University of Chicago...
...date, the copper hairs have not disturbed the astronomers. "Even the boys at Lincoln Lab, who are looking for them, can't find them," observed Huguenin...