Word: mice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race was engineered by using long boards for run-ways, a hearth for the finish line, and bits of cheese as lures for the anxious mice...
...took a whole crew of doctors, pharmacists and experts from the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, using 1,220 mice, 150 rats and 24 guinea pigs, to find out. After four puzzling days, a sharp-eyed pathologist found four injection marks in Mrs. Barlow's buttocks, two on each side. From each site he removed part of the underlying tissue for analysis, suspecting insulin. Barlow's boast had been half right: insulin is almost impossible to detect. But by extraordinarily ingenious methods described in the British Medical Journal, the drug sleuths found a way to prove that there...
...facts, reported by Dr. David G. Doherty of the Atomic Energy Commission's famed Oak Ridge National Laboratory: several compounds built around S, 2-aminoethylisothiuronium (or AET) have been given to rats and mice, monkeys and dogs. Then the animals have been exposed to radiation. Figuring that 400 r. (see SCIENCE) will kill half the animals or human beings exposed to it, Researchers Doherty and Raymond Shapira doubled the dose. Whereas all untreated animals died, nearly all those given a suitable dose of AET survived...
...polio virus: Chat (named from the initials of the child from whom it was taken), belonging to Type 1, and Fox III (named for a doctor who isolated it from a child victim), belonging to Type 3. Both strains were attenuated, i.e., they were grown in different media (including mice) until they lost all power to cause paralysis, though they could still stimulate the human system to produce antibodies. Both were tested in human volunteers in the U.S. before shipment to Africa, where they were again checked for safety in chimpanzees at a specially established animal farm...
...vampire menace of Latin America has been building up for several decades. Even before they carried rabies, the blood-drinking bats were not pleasant neighbors. When attacking sleeping humans, they generally go for the toes, sometimes creeping under the bedclothes like evil, winged mice. Sleeping animals are their staple diet. They generally bite on the wing, retreating and hovering in the air a few feet away to see if their victim has awakened. Dogs often wake up when bitten, but other animals generally do not. Several bats may flutter down to drink one trickle of blood...