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...trained Ion Gresser, at the Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer in Villejuif, France. He made his own interferon by injecting viruses into the brains of laboratory mice; that stimulated the production of IF. After mashing the brains and processing them, he was left with a crude but potent solution of interferon. He gave the IF to a group of mice injected with a virus that causes leukemia, a blood cancer. After a month, the interferon-treated mice were in good health; those in an untreated control group had leukemia. Gresser then went on to demonstrate that IF actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...cells may do it best, perhaps because, as Pathologist Robert Friedman of the National Institutes of Health says, it is more of an "insider," a substance tailor-made by the immune system cells themselves. According to Samuel Baron, the Texas virologist, immune IF is 20 times more potent an antitumor agent than the interferon produced by fibroblast or leukocyte cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

Despite tallying three first-period goals, Cornell never appeared to control the contest. Instead, the potent Dartmouth attack, led by the Shaun Teevens-Ross Brownridge-Dennis Murphy line, dominated play, relentlessly unleashing drives on the Cornell...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Cornell Plasters Big Green, Captures Sixth ECAC Crown | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...million gal. of the herbicide sprayed on Viet Nam. Dioxin can cause a variety of torments, including a skin disorder called chloracne, liver damage and cancer. In addition, a researcher for the Food and Drug Administration once estimated that dioxin is "100,000 to a million times more potent" than thalidomide in causing birth defects among the children of people exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Is My Country? | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

...POTENT MYTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPSULES: Capsules | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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