Word: proteins
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...fallen on hard times. Today's frankfurters contain less than 12% protein and about 28% fat, according to a study released last week by the Consumers Union. In contrast, the wieners of 1937 averaged nearly 20% protein and only 19% fat. Space age franks were also found by the Consumers Union to contain alarmingly high levels of water, bacteria and potentially poisonous nitrites. More than 40% of the test hot dogs were in the process of spoiling; insect parts and rodent hairs turned...
Jacques Monod, a Nobel Prize winner in Biology, helped formulate some of the original discoveries in molecular biology dealing with DNA replication and protein synthesis. More recent discoveries in the field have clearly illuminated the basic biochemical manner in which genetic materials are replicated and translated inside living tissue. Chance and Necessity reviews this information, describing the molecular structures in a fairly non-technical fashion. Monod hypothesizes how the nucleic acids might have originated as the information carrier molecule, suggests that the genetic code may have come into being purely randomly, and even suggests a mechanism for DNA-protein specificity...
Most researchers have long believed that viruses play some crucial role in causing human cancers. The source and precise function of these viruses (tiny packets of nucleic acids and protein) in cancer are still obscure, and no one knows how to control them. Dramatic progress cannot be made until cancer viruses are clearly identified in humans, as has already been done in animals. Now that vital next step has apparently been taken...
Janeway has done research in infectious diseases and antibiotics, blood protein fractions, immunities and other fields of child medicine...
...unpredictable side effects that may not show up for years. In recent Philippine experience with new strains of rice, for example, farmers were delighted to reap bumper crops. But so many chemicals were needed that the fish in the paddylields and nearby waterways died. Result: more rice but less protein in the local diet-a net loss in food values...