Word: merck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been asked to write the letter by the president of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Professors testify in Washington against labeling cigarette packages with health warnings without revealing that they are consultants for tobacco companies. Others argue against government regulation of the drug industry sitting on boards of companies like Merck...
Last week, two groups of scientific researchers jointly announced that they had succeeded for the first time in synthesizing an important enzyme in the laboratory. The triumphant research teams came from Manhattan's Rockefeller University and the Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories at Rahway, N.J. Working independently from different starting points and along different routes, both of the research groups reached the same end point: synthesis of ribonuclease, an enzyme found in the pancreas (sweetbreads) of cattle that helps to break down ribonucleic acid...
...Merck researchers, Drs. Robert G. Denkewalter and Ralph F. Hirschmann, went at it differently. They prepared groups of six to 17 amino acids in linked series. They then put these groups together to form the ultimate 124-link chain. Their product turned out to be the same as the Rockefeller synthetic enzyme; its identity was proved by the way in which it broke down ribonucleic acid...
...first synthesis of an enzyme, said Merck's Dr. Max Tishler last week, should provide much of the knowledge needed for researchers to devise and produce "the next generation" of healing agents...
...firm Avon Products was the best performer with 37.3%. On the basis of earnings as a percentage of total sales, Amerada Petroleum, the 337th company on the list, ranked highest with 26.7%. By either measure, Polaroid and such drug firms as G. D. Searle, Smith Kline & French Laboratories and Merck were outstanding performers...