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Another line of attack is lures. Scientists led by Dr. Walter Carter of the Pineapple Research Bureau have discovered that a chemical, methyl eugenol, has a fatal attraction for male flies. The experts do not know whether the males mistake the scent for females, or whether they think the stuff is good to eat, but in one week, 250,000 males swarmed into traps that had been baited with...
...Hygiene Department may intervene if specimens preserved in methyl alcohol are served in the Dining Halls, since this fluid often causes blindness. Therefore, these alcohol-soaked specimens may be sold to the local institutions for the blind where the inmates would suffer no ill-effects. And thus the University would find another source of income...
...years' experimentation with tissue cultures at the Institute, Dr. Wilton R. Earle transformed normal cells to cancerous cells by treatment with 20-methyl-cholanthrene, a coal-tar chemical. In an effort to determine what takes place in the mutant cells, he now plans to destroy existing cultures and re-outfit his laboratory for a fresh attack on the baffling problem...
Northwestern University Dental School's Dr. Leonard S. Fosdick & co-workers may have found an answer. Reporting in the Journal of Dental Research, the experimenters released some long-awaited data on acid-decreasing synthetic vitamin K (2-methyl-1, 4-napthoquinone). They hit on the idea of spreading it on chewing gum. For the experiment, 55 Northwestern students faithfully chomped vitamin K-coated gum for ten minutes after each meal. Another 45 chewed untreated gum. A third group chewed nothing...
...Amazing is the chemists' progress against bugs. Every soldier now carries a tin of powder (pyrethrum plus a synthetic insecticide called IN-930) with which he can deflea himself in a jiffy, a tiny vial of fumigator (methyl bromide) with which he can quickly delouse his clothes in a sealed paper...