Word: proteins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Doubt. A medical technician, Kono stokes himself on vitamin pills, minerals and protein tablets. To gain weight, he eats five meals a day while varying the menu from Chinese to Japanese to Italian to American. Bachelor Kono's diligence draws high praise from Bob Hoffman, vice chairman of the A.A.U. weight-lifting committee: "Kono is dedicated. Others get married, bring their wives to contests. You can't win that way. If a wife is cooperative and accepts the fact that bar bells come first, a weight lifter might succeed. Otherwise,, there is no place for a wife...
Discovery in Heidelberg. After working his way through the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Barnes went to Heidelberg, earning his keep as a singer of Negro spirituals in a Bierstube. He and a brilliant young German student, Hermann Hille. worked out the formula for Argyrol, a mild silver protein solution for which doctors had many uses-to treat gonorrhea, including gonorrheal blindness, relieve severe nasal congestion. Argyrol, manufactured in a former flophouse in Philadelphia, was an instant and worldwide success, and Barnes was a million aire before he was 35. In 1928, with superb timing, Barnes sold out Argyrol...
Chemical Mutation. Tsugita and Fra«n-kel-Conrat worked with TMU, a virus that causes mosaic disease in tobacco plants. TMU's structure is extremely simple. All it has is a core of coiled-up RNA surrounded by a cylindrical jacket made of protein molecules. Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat first stripped off the jacket by use of a protein-dissolving chemical. Then they treated the naked RNA with nitrous acid, which is known to affect the RNA's code-carrying bases. After the nitrous acid had. acted, the RNA was enabled to clothe itself...
...Tsugita and Fraenkel-Conrat went farther: when they had grown in tobacco plants a good supply of mutated virus, they analyzed its protein and found that it was not quite the same as the protein of normal virus. And in the specialized world of biochemistry this was exciting news. Other chemically induced mutations have shown themselves as changes of behavior, which cannot be described chemically. Now the effect of the change in the virus's RNA can be seen as a definite chemical change in its protein...
...patients in other groups have been subject to whims of medical fashion, usually leaning to the high-protein side and cutting down on starches. Dr. Brunner suggests that by copying the Yemenite diet (63% carbohydrates), diabetics might slow down, or perhaps even prevent, development of the worst complications of their diseases...