Word: mice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leisure he studies animals, and with a loving eye: not the large zoo animals or the poor, doomed "experimental" animals of laboratories, but mostly small casual creatures (mice, canaries, cockroaches) who lead their skittery lives around his desk. He clocks their habits, weighs their motives, charts their systems of morality. He has a fine eye for a dreamy, pregnant cockroach or an honored canary grown wise with...
Mountain Vacations. Drs. Carl R. Moore and Dorothy Price of the University of Chicago told the National Academy of Sciences how they sent some rodents on purposeful vacations. They assembled congenial groups of rats, mice, guinea pigs and hamsters and let them live for a while at pleasant mountain resorts. The idea was to test the theory that high altitudes have an adverse effect on sexual activity. Even at 14,260 feet, all the rodents multiplied with unimpaired efficiency. This altitude, concluded Moore & Price, does not diminish fertility-for rodents, anyway...
...Rooms protected from all atomic radiation were being built at the Jackson Memorial Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me. Future tenants: rats, mice, guinea pigs...
...attrition. They do not hope to find a miracle cure, but they do expect their present slow progress to continue. In Atlantic City last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, one scientist cracked: "The progress of cancer research depends on how fast mice reproduce." (Usual breeding rate: one litter every 20 days...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...