Word: penicillins
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...proof for the chromosome theory of heredity. In determining that genes control the synthesis of vitamins and amino acids, George Beadle discovered the bread mold, Neurospora, as an effective research tool. This has sped the progress of genetics a hundredfold, was partly responsible for the successful increased production of penicillin...
...long as the shortage prevails and the vaccine's effectiveness is in question. Manufacturers predict that an adequate supply will be available for all by August at the latest. In her own defense of the voluntary system, Mrs. Hobby has pointed out how well the voluntary administration of penicillin shots was carried out in 1952. She forgets, however, that even then Health Service officials required stringent controls on distribution to prevent black markets...
Never before in history had a medical development been big, instantaneous news over a large part of the world. Such a momentous item as Fleming's penicillin moldered for years in musty libraries before laymen heard of it. Last week's report on the Salk vaccine was good for banner headlines everywhere, and was covered by the press as massively as the end of a major war-which it was. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.* Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever...
...prominent commissar throw himself under a passing bus helped Borodin decide that life in the south would be healthier than in the capital, and he went to Baku. Borodin might still be a Baku bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture...
Died. Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, Nobel Prizewinning Scottish-born bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928; of a Coronary thrombosis ; at his home in London (see MEDICINE...