Word: protozoa
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...walls of nature's cells are permeable to specific chemicals and to electric currents. The Cash men see no reason why their synthetic cells (which are about the same size) should not be trained to behave in this way too. They are not trying to synthesize bacteria or protozoa, but there is at least a possibility that Cash's capsules can be made to resemble the neurons (nerve cells) of the human brain and to take over some of their functions...
...just divided into two new individuals. Working with a powerful microscope, he picks one of them up with a hairlike suction tube and delicately transfers it to a minute cup on top of the Cartesian diver. It cannot escape, but it thrives slimily on a broth of smaller protozoa. By measuring the pressure that will keep the underwater Cartesian diver on the zero line, Dr. Prescott can weigh his captive amoeba at all stages of growth. When the amoeba has doubled in weight, it generally divides into two "daughters...
...Mike. Hit of last week's industrial fair at Hannover, Germany, was a three-dimensional projection microscope designed by Dr. Friedrich Fehse of Hamburg. It projected repulsive little creatures (protozoa, bacilli, etc.) on a three-foot screen and enlarged them to the size of rabbits. Observers wearing polarized glasses got the shock of their lives. The blown-up varmints appeared to be swimming toward them, even reaching for them...
...birth, there was something wrong with her eyes and her head became enlarged. She died in a hospital at the age of one month. Pathologists Abner Wolf and David Cowen could not fix the cause of death, but they found some puzzling little organisms in the brain. They were protozoa, to be sure, but what kind? Not until two years later (1939), when the two doctors had a similar ease and were able to transmit the baby's disease to laboratory mice, could they be sure what it was: toxoplasmosis. The luckless youngster on Eighth Avenue, her illness posthumously...
...should be most obvious in acute cases. But because toxoplasmosis is hard to identify, the patient often does not get the treatment soon enough. Last week Microbiologist Don E. Eyles of the National Institutes of Health reported a hopeful new lead: Daraprim, which has already shown promise against the protozoa of malaria (TIME, Sept. 1), is effective against toxoplasmosis in mice when given with sulfadiazine. Now the trick is to extend the benefits from mice...