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...Poliomyelitis viruses for vaccine production can be grown in human afterbirth, which may replace monkey kidneys as the basis of production-line tissue cultures, suggested three University of California researchers. Cells from the inner layer (amnion) of the placenta grow at about the same rate as monkey kidney cells and in the same chemical food baths, reported Elsa M. Zitcer and colleagues. Advantages: less danger of sensitization, and freer supply of placentas, since India is sensitive about continued export of the revered monkeys...
...your Publisher's Letter [May 23] you mentioned an interesting alcoholic concoction, a "Monkey Gland...
...Monkey Gland...
...pair of magical serpents, one white, one green, who turn themselves into girls, one loving, one murderous. Then followed a sensational display of acting, dancing and pantomime called Troubles in the Heavenly Kingdom, in which a talented performer named Wang Ming-chung played the part of the immortal Monkey King who defeated the gods in a rough-and-tumble battle. Finally came an acrobatic ballet and a short, exotic concert on stage, featuring such instruments as the hsiao (bamboo flute), sheng (a super mouth organ), hsiao-na (a straight wooden bugle with a copper bell) and several small drums. When...
...represent all the Type I strains, was safe because it was killed; critics had damned it in the live state as the most virulent form known, and the likeliest to cause paralysis. Now, Dr. Salk wavered: Mahoney was a good strain because it multiplied in liveliest fashion in monkey kidney material and therefore yielded a good "crop" for the vaccine-maker. But he seemed resigned to abandoning it; he was checking scores of other Type I strains to find a replacement...