Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope against tuberculosis was reported in Science last week. A green mold believed to be of the penicillium family it attacks the tubercle bacillus. Its discoverers, Drs. David Kimball Miller and Albert Carl Rekate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, reported promising results on guinea pigs...
...Corps still has no Negro officers. But it has 16,000 strapping Negro enlisted men. Some of them have become hard-boiled drill instructors in the classic mold and some have reached the top enlisted grade-sergeant major...
...Flotill Products, Inc. of Stockton, Calif. has found a fine new food for penicillium mold-old asparagus butts, which canneries discard...
...first, penicillin was produced only in small flasks (relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a brew of lactose made from skimmed milk and steep liquor made from corn...
...biggest step forward was the development of a method of making penicillin in tanks instead of in flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...