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...Henman, that most English of tennis players, is lionized for being Wimbledon’s perpetual semi-finalist. That he has never reached the final—for goodness sake, this year he was even outperformed by David Nalbandian who, before the tournament, was known to no one except (perhaps) his mother—is viewed as irrelevant. Damn it, he’s English and his father has an impressive range of blue blazers. Which is what tennis is about after...
Linebackers: Jim Burke made the switch from guard and now heads the Bruins' linebacking corps. He leads the club in tackles with 76. The three other Bruin linebackers are Matt Nalbandian, Steve Kapler and Scott Perry...
Freezing Blood. At a recent meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in Chicago, Dr. Paul Wolf of Stanford University and Dr. Robert Nalbandian of Blodgett Memorial Hospital in Grand Rapids, announced their success after three years of experiments. They emphasized that they had built on the pioneering studies of Makio Murayama of the National Institutes of Health. Murayama observed that abnormal cells, which carry sickle-producing hemoglobin S, gel at normal body temperature when oxygen content is reduced, then return to normal...
Working in cooperation with other researchers, Wolf and Nalbandian discovered chemicals that would react to hemoglobin S and other less harmful sickling substances, making a quick screening test possible. A small blood sample is dropped into a tube containing a solution of potassium phosphate, sodium dithionite and saponin. Clouding of the solution is a danger signal but does not specifically identify hemoglobin S. If the first round arouses suspicion, a second test, also based on Murayama's work, is performed immediately. Urea, a natural waste substance produced by the normal liver, breaks some molecular bonds in abnormal hemoglobin. When...
Neglected Ailment. The Wolf-Nalbandian tests do not distinguish between those who merely carry the sickle-cell trait and those actually affected by the disease. But they do provide a fast, inexpensive method of finding individuals who should get further attention. In an experimental program at Fort Knox, Ky., doctors tested 7,000 black soldiers, 94 of whom were found to carry hemoglobin S. Two of these soldiers actually had sickle-cell anemia...