Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results: Without injury to healthy cells, new drug combinations have completely cured 59% of 2,866 rats and mice suffering from 46 different types of animal cancer.*-Some compounds were especially effective. For the first time in history, a drug (triethylene melamine) cured 100% of the rats with one type of animal cancer; used against another type of cancer, the same compound was 95% effective. Other compounds cured 98% of one type of mouse leukemia ("blood cancer"), a disease that has been restrained but never cured in humans...
...radium therapy work with an undiscriminating shotgun effect on growing tissues, healthy as well as diseased. (These techniques do not work when the disease is advanced and widespread.) But many authorities have held that chemicals, too, would prove hazardous. Sloan-Kettering's preliminary findings with rats and mice suggest that the hazard may be overcome, but the crucial test is still to come-the testing of these and other compounds on transplanted human cancers in rats and mice (TIME, April 20, 1953). The results so far, said the institute's director, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, "justify the hope that...
...minutes, but will not do so "forever." There is still a little air at 190 miles, and friction will slow the Mouse until it finally sinks into denser air and crashes to earth or, more likely, burns up. Since it will not be manned, even by monkeys or mice, its demise will be no disaster...
Precious Data. The cost of the Mouse, says Professor Singer, will be modest. He thinks that if five Mice are built, they should cost $1,000,000 each, which is less than the cost of a B-47 ($2,500,000). For this sum, U.S. scientists will get precious information beyond the capacities of present-day rockets...
...Formerly of St. Louis' Washington University, where, with famed Surgeon Evarts Graham, he produced cancers on the backs of mice with tobacco tar (TIME...