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...numerous types of cancer, few are more dreaded than acute leukemia. The disease, which often afflicts the young, is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of certain white blood cells, which gradually crowd out the vital red blood cells. The cause of this lethal rampage is not yet clear, but what may be a crucial clue has just been reported in Nature by Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute. His findings could point the way to a leukemia cure...
Carefully examining the white blood cells of 48 healthy people and three leukemia patients, Gallo and two colleagues−Stringner S. Yang and Robert C. Ting of the Bionetics Research Laboratories−discovered a small but possibly critical difference. The white cells of the leukemia victims showed the presence of an enzyme known as RNA-dependent DNA polymerase; the cells of the normal people did not. The presence of the enzyme suggested that it may play a key role in the development of the disease...
Died. Benjamin O. Davis Sr., 93, the first black general in the U.S. armed forces; of leukemia; in North Chicago, Ill. A Howard University dropout, Davis began his career in 1898 as a temporary first lieutenant in charge of a volunteer company in the Spanish-American War. He was a lieutenant colonel by 1920, but it was not until the 1940 presidential campaign that F.D.R. elevated the 63-year-old soldier to the rank of brigadier general. After serving as Eisenhower's special adviser on the problems of black soldiers in the European theater, Davis retired...
...pair, a wealthy preppie hockey player and a poor music major, meet in the Radcliffe library. Defying the theories of class conflict, they fall in love, marry and live happily ever after (which doesn't turn out to be very long- only until Ali MacGraw dies of leukemia...
...perform them. In the last few years, however, the entire field of molecular genetic has attracted an aura of scientific glamour. Newspaper stories about the isolation of the gene, genetic engineering, and "the secret of life itself" arouse the public's curiosity, and recent major advances in cancer and leukemia viral research excite even medical professionals. Research workers in molecular genetics are acutely aware of the implications of their work, of course, but usually prefer to separate personal reflections from the experimental observations that are reported in the scientific literature. Molecular Biology of the Gene (second edition), Professor Watson...