Word: oxygenation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mechanism of leukemia, cancer's blood brother. The biggest claim was filed by Nobelman Otto Warburg, head of Berlin's famed Max Planck Institute for Cell Physiology. Said Warburg, as translated in Science: ¶ The cancer process begins when cells are injured by being starved of oxygen...
...This injury is irreversible. It kills some cells, but others survive, and these survivors learn to nourish themselves in an abnormal way. Instead of getting energy by "breathing" oxygen, they get it by fermentation. Though maimed, they multiply, and pass on their abnormal metabolism to their offspring...
...recognized "causes" of cancer, e.g., chemicals, X rays, viruses, are of secondary importance because they are merely responsible for the original injury to cells by depriving them of oxygen. This deprivation is the one basic cause of the disease...
...break the world's record (:20.2) set in 1949 by Southern California's Mel Patton. ¶| James Ray Jordan, 36, a California aircraft worker with a great desire to set a world record, achieved his heart's desire by tanking up on pure oxygen for two minutes, dropping to the bottom of a heated San Diego swimming pool and holding his breath for 8 min. 3½ sec. to crack the record set by France's M. Pauliquen...
...experts are not sure what the spaceship's atmosphere should be made of. Pure oxygen might be all right if its pressure were low enough (at atmospheric pressure, it is poisonous), but nitrogen also may be necessary for human health. In any case, the pressure in the spaceship should not be too low. If a meteor punctured the skin, a good thick atmosphere of oxygen diluted with nitrogen or helium would not be lost as quickly as a thin one of oxygen alone...