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...recent discovery that cats have a natural defense system against leukemia may direct emphasis to an entirely new area of human cancer treatment called immunotherapy, a microbiologist at the School of Public Health said yesterday...
...that eats oil is the result of nearly six years of work by Ananda Chakrabarty, 41, an Indian-born microbiologist. Like most of his colleagues, Chakrabarty knew that at least four strains of the common pseudomonas bacteria contained enzymes that enabled them to break down different hydrocarbons-the major ingredients of oil. He combined these strains into what he describes as a "superbug" that can eat oil faster than any one of the four can individually...
...Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston, 49, of Berkeley, Calif, has been a medical microbiologist for 23 years and unemployed for the past 17 months. Says she: "Nobody is going to hire a microbiologist to drive a bus. But I'm prepared to handle that. On job application forms, I can put down that I'm only a high school graduate. This...
...assorted roommates are living in a high-rise apartment on a Northern California campus. There is Ward, a jock who scores as often off as on the field, sharing digs with Leeds, a malicious intellectual who can only win with wit. Right next door lives Ron, a microbiologist of genius, and his faithless wife Honor. When Ward boasts that he can seduce Honor, Leeds bets him that if he does so, Ron will kill Ward within 48 hours. The resulting anarchy smacks of both the Marx brothers and Sleuth and produces two good performances, from Kenneth Oilman as Ward...
Norton D. Zinder, 45, an eminent microbiologist and geneticist, is also a tree shaker in the politics of science. Chairing a committee of scientists assessing the National Cancer Institute's virus research, Zinder helped draft a report that prompted a major reorganization of the program. A native of New York City, he went from Columbia to graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, where he and Nobelist Joshua Lederberg co-discovered transduction-the process by which a virus deserts its home cell and invades a new one, often altering the new cell's genetic profile. Zinder, an associate...