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...George Wells Beadle isolated in crystalline form one of two hormones by means of which Drosophila'?, genes control the fly's eye color. At Caltech, Dr. Arie Jan Haagen-Smit analyzed the hormone, found its molecule contained 21 atoms of carbon, 34 of hydrogen, two of nitrogen. 14 of oxygen. If the California scientists can follow up this first success by isolating and identifying the other eye-color hormone, they may cast a sudden brilliant light on how genes control heredity...
...Johns Hopkins: the Eli Lilly & Co. award of $1,000, given each year for distinguished research in biochemistry. Dr. Ball purified xanthine oxidase, an enzyme necessary for oxidation of food in the body; found it consisted of a protein fraction and a non-protein fraction containing phosphorus, nitrogen, Vitamin...
...Nitroparaffms. Last spring Chemist Henry Bohn Hass of Purdue announced production of two new explosives, "nibglycerol trinitrate" and "nibglycol dinitrate," by combining steam, nitrogen from air, methane and ethane from natural gas (TIME, April 17). Now dozens of other nitroparaffins similarly formed are available for making plastics, dyes, textiles, cosmetics, floor waxes, rubber...
Aeroembolism. After rapid ascent to high altitudes a pilot may be attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...