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...avalanche of money is attracting many companies. Last week Merck & Co., the drug manufacturers, agreed to pay $44 million in stock for Baltimore Aircoil Co., which earned $1.2 million in 1969 by making cooling towers to control thermal pollution of water. Last month the Coca-Cola Co. announced plans to acquire Aqua-Chem Inc., a Milwaukee water-purification firm. Alurm-num Co. of America moved late last year to set up a division that will develop and market antipollution systems...
...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...