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...many scientists had their doubts, one of them disdainfully calling the finding "misinterpreton." Recalls Microbiologist Samuel Baron, who worked with Isaacs in 1960: "It was too good to believe. Other inhibitors of viruses had been debunked, so they thought interferon was another false claim." Baron, from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, had his own doubts when he arrived in England to join Isaacs: "I remember saying to the technician, 'Let's see how this thing works.' It was so impressive that at the end of a week I was fully convinced of its potential. I rolled...
Iran's tough-talking Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, 47, is an American-trained microbiologist who lived and worked in the U.S. for 18 years before joining the Ayatullah Khomeini's entourage in Paris last October. In a candid interview last week, he discussed the prospect of an "Irangate" scandal, the fate of his country's F-14s and other topics with TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst. Excerpts...
This challenging theory holds that atherosclerosis results from infection by the ubiquitous herpes viruses. At Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, Microbiologist Catherine Fabricant and colleagues are working with a herpes virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease. The scientists found that it also causes atherosclerotic lesions in heart arteries. But, intriguingly, virustree chickens do not develop heart disease even when fed a high cholesterol diet. Fabricant speculates that something similar may happen in humans as well...
Iran's Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the onetime Houston microbiologist who has emerged as a key figure in the revolutionary government, dismisses the Forghan charge of too much akhoundism in Iran. In an interview with TIME last week (see box), he charged that such accusations are part of the strategy of the government's enemies, which is "to frustrate the revolution through protracted psychological warfare...
Yesterday's Phi Beta Kappa orator, microbiologist Rene Dubos, might well be named along with the others. So might retiring Divinity School Dean Krister Stendahl...