Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waltzing Mice...
Weighing a pound of waltzing mice [TiME, Dec. 9] is not so difficult as you seem to think. First, you play your mice a recording of Die Fledermaus, and when they begin waltzing, you turn down the volume and start reading to them out of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County. This puts the mice to sleep. So you gently place them upon a scale, couple by couple, until it shows a full pound. Then you turn up the volume, and the mice wake up and again go into their dance. Result: a pound of waltzing mice...
...discoverers' initials) is derived from Schizatrypanum cruzi, a South American trypanosome that has an affinity for cancer cells. When injected into cancerous mice, it gradually dissolves their tumors, but also kills the mice. Roskin & Klyueva developed a toxin from killed trypanosomes that dissolved cancer cells but was harmless to healthy cells. The cancer-destroying element, they concluded, was not the trypanosome itself but a toxin which it secreted. The toxin has proved safe for human patients...
Following up this lead, the two Russian researchers tried other toxins. Two-diphtheria and tetanus-seemed to work. Tested on cancerous mice, tetanus toxin checked or reduced tumors in half the cases. Diphtheria toxin did even better: out of 65 mice with cancers, it cured 39, stopped tumor growth in 19. Unlike KR, the toxins have still to be tested on humans. U.S. researchers, fascinated but uncertain, are pursuing experiments along similar lines...
...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...