Word: proteins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kennedy on increasing consumption, Nixon called for a "crash agricultural-research program" to find "new industrial and other uses for our farm products." In Operation Consume, drawing on the old more meat, less bread approach to the surplus problem, Nixon had urged a program for converting surplus grains into protein foods. Under this program, farmers would get grain from the Government to feed to livestock and poultry; the meat, milk and eggs produced would be channeled into foreign and domestic giveaway programs. The farmer would get his compensation in additional surplus grain, to sell...
...urgent study of methods for converting excess grain into low-cost protein foods, e.g. canned meat, powdered milk and eggs, for distribution at home and abroad...
...Gases to Protein. Astronomers believe that the atmosphere of the early, lifeless earth had no free oxygen in it, but was made of gases like methane, hydrogen and ammonia. Scientists have also proved that when this gaseous mixture is put in a flask with a little water in the bottom, and an electric discharge is passed through it, the chemical reaction produces an accumulation of amino acids in the water. Since amino acids are the building blocks out of which proteins are made, and proteins are the chemical framework of all life on earth, the first chemical step toward life...
...Protein to Cells. The next step in the life-creating process, according to one theory, is the organizing of protein molecules into cells that grow by absorbing smaller molecules in the water around them and multiply by dividing. How did nature make cells, with their permeable walls and juicy insides, out of assorted protein molecules? Dr. Fox does not think this is difficult; he has done something very like it himself. He dissolved in hot water some of the proteinoids that he made by heating amino acids. When he cooled the solution, billions of microspheres appeared, about the size...
...requests, but he can guess that an order for Penicillium camemberti or Penicillium roqueforti came from a person with cheese making on his mind. Aspergillus flavus, which pro duces an enzyme that breaks down pro tein, may be intended for use in dehairing hides, or perhaps to remove the protein that makes beer cloudy when chilled...