Word: proteins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czajkowski reasoned that if an essential protein component of a person's cancer cells could be combined with an unrelated protein and injected, the patient's system might react by making three types of antibody, one against the foreign protein, one against the cancer factor and a third against the combination. A tailor-made vaccine could thus be created to make each patient immune to his own cancer. The Czajkowski theory is attractive and plausible to many researchers but remains unproved...
...diseases in many patients could be combined. Couldn't the pooled substance be used to make a vaccine that would work on victims of various forms of cancer? Cancerous cells were thereupon collected from patients all over the country and put through an extraction process. The remaining protein was combined with gamma globulin from rabbit serum in the hope of producing an all-purpose vaccine. The trouble with this imaginative theory is that so far there is no accepted evidence for the existence of such widely effective antigens in unrelated cancers...
...most persistent and articulate proponents of the biochemical view is Tulane University's Dr. Robert G. Heath. In 1956, Heath announced that he had isolated a mysterious protein from the blood of schizophrenics. When injected into monkeys or prison volunteers, the protein caused schizophrenia-like symptoms. Now, in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Dr. Heath reports that he has succeeded in further purifying this substance, taraxein. It works like an antibody, he says, in effect sensitizing a person against certain parts of his own brain. If this can be confirmed, schizophrenia would be classed as one of the autoimmune...
...patients; fortunately, many of them actually prefer to lie on mats on the floor or on porches outside the buildings. There are no minor illnesses. "When a Montagnard comes in from his village," says Dr. Smith, "we take it for granted that he's malnourished, mostly from protein deficiency, that he has intestinal parasites and also malaria. After that, we ask what's wrong with him." Despite the confidence she has won through her skill and insight, Dr. Smith finds that many patients still will not go to the hospital until it is too late...
...from whisky" -fusel oil, usually blamed for hangovers, can now be largely removed from whisky and sold to paint and perfume makers. Poultry processors, confronted with smothering stockpiles of chicken feathers that would not burn, came up with a new process that breaks down the feathers into a mealy, protein-rich substance. Today, many chickens are growing fat faster on the feathers of their predecessors...