Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cancer Research Institute in Boston, which is under Farber's direction, was chosen as one of five research centers to carry out the plan before July. The nationwide research program will proceed in a "hit-or-miss" screening of drugs, Farber explained, by using them in experiments with mice and tumors removed from the human body...
...Made from an organism found in voles (British field mice). This bacillus (Mycobacterium muris) is a close kin to the human-type tubercle bacillus, but does not cause disease in man. The question before this test was whether it could confer immunity against TB (as cowpox does against smallpox...
...They did not work fast or well enough, so he and a research team set out to design a completely new compound that would reactivate cholinesterase by getting close to the phosphoryl group and removing it from the cell's protein. PAM got its test when hundreds of mice were exposed to one of the most deadly nerve gases, then given shots of the compound. The results, reported the researchers, were "dramatic and certain." Not a mouse died. Since protein structure is the same in humans and mice, scientists see no reason why the compound will not work...
...traditional problem for listeners stems from the custom of shuttering Paine Hall at 5 p.m. During regular office hours, every one of Music I's 300-odd students is quite welcome. From 5 p.m. to 9 a.m., only Paine Hall's 300-odd little mice can play. WHRB broadcasts assignments twice a week, attempting as best it can to fit the records into a limited program. Listening at a specific time, either in a gloomy cellar or at a gastronomically annoying hour, however, offers little stimulus to keep pace with assignments. Commuters, excluded from WHRB's many watts, are further...
Genetic Damage. Their exposure to the cosmic rays did not seem to damage any of the animals. Some of the black mice grew a few white hairs, presumably caused when cosmic rays passed through hair follicles. No other bodily damage was noted. Major Simons admits, of course, that cosmic rays kill tissue cells, but he does not think any part of an animal's body is seriously damaged by the loss of a few cells. Genetic damage is another matter. If a cosmic ray hits a reproductive cell (sperm or ovum), it can cause the birth of an imperfect...