Word: ochoa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Severo Ochoa, 54, born in the Bay of Biscay town of Luarca, taught physiology at the University of Madrid until 1936. Then, with his family as sharply disrupted as his country by Franco's rebellion, Ochoa left to do research in Germany and England, came to the U.S. in 1940. After a year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make...
With different enzymes from different bacterial cells, Kornberg used methods outwardly similar to Ochoa's in synthesizing a form of DNA in 1957. Chemically and physically, it behaves like a natural DNA; whether it contains a vital spark is not yet known...
...heredity (they may be identical with genes), the ability to synthesize biologically active forms may give man new power over the production of living things. And since RNAs are essential to growth, mastery of them might supply the answer to cancer, which is uncontrolled growth. Both modest men, neither Ochoa nor Kornberg would make such claims. Said Ochoa: "Now that I have won this honor, I guess I'll have to work harder...
...Cuba, which has more television sets than any country but the U.S. and Great Britain, citizens like to sit down of a Sunday evening and watch a rousing political harangue. This week they got it from Emilio Ochoa, president of the Orthodox Party, which bitterly opposes Strong Man Fulgencio Batista. Ochoa demanded that 500,000 Orthodox youths march on Batista's headquarters at Columbia military camp near Havana "to see if the soldiers will fire." Shortly after Ochoa's face faded from screens all over Cuba, Military Intelligence agents closed in on him and made history...