Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sake of experiment, London physiologists T. S. P. Strangeways and H. B. Fell cracked open several hatching eggs (64 to 72 hours incubation*) and scooped out the eyes of the unborn chicks. These eyes they placed in a glass dish which contained blood plasma and extract of embryonic fowl tissue, a viscid fluid. The tiny eyes dreamily bobbed about in this sticky medium, grew in "a surprisingly normal way," gave the horrible semblance of blinking at the experimenters who watched them last week...
...Frank Fremont-Smith '13 will address the regular meeting of the Physiological Conference in Building C of the Bowditch Library of the Harvard Medical School at 4 o'clock this afternoon. His subject will be "The Effect of Concentration of Protein in the Plasma on the Distribution of Chloride between the Plasma and the Cerebral Spinal Fluid". The conference is open only to members of the University...