Word: mice
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indefatigable Professor Maud Slye, pathologist of the University of Chicago, will use her "vacation" to address the International Congress for the Control of Cancer which meets in Brussels next month. Also at Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, perhaps Copenhagen, she will give the case histories of 5.000 cancerous and noncancerous mice, renew her old plea that complete medical records be kept for human cancer as she has kept them for her army of rodents...
Miss Slye has autopsied 138,700 mice...
...walk through her Midway laboratory (she lives across the street from it), glance at the case histories of 9,000 mice, tell what kind of cancer, if any, each will develop. She can tell 98 times out of a hundred how soon the disease will appear and in what part of the body...
...obliterate, the susceptibility factor whenever they occur together. A resistant individual mated to a susceptible one will have resistant offspring. But these offspring carry the susceptibility gene concealed in their germ plasm, and if they mate with susceptibles the second generation will be liable to cancer. The Slye mice show that not only inherited susceptibility but also some injury or chronic irritation is necessary for the malignant growths to appear. Dr. Slye has mice prone to cancer of the jaw which never develops because she keeps their incisors filed short, preventing tooth irritation...
Just as rats make excellent laboratory animals for nutrition research, mice for cancer and monkeys for poliomyelitis, so ferrets are invaluable to influenza investigators. Ferret reactions were the basis of Harvard's Dr. William Firth Wells's demonstration last month that ultraviolet radiation kills the unknown germ or virus which causes that disease (TIME, Aug. 3). But many doctors think it probable that some infectious agencies change their form in different environments. The question remained: While human influenza could be communicated to ferrets, could ferret influenza be communicated...