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Word: leuconostoc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...newest substitute for blood plasma is made from beets. Dextran, reported last week by Professor Arne Tiselius of Sweden's Institute of Physical Chemistry, is a white, jellylike substance which results when the bacteria Leuconostoc mesenteroides lives in beet sugar (it has long been a plague of sugar factories because it clogs up the pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood from a Beet | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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