Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HONOR IS MISPLACED. I HAVE BEEN IN NO WAY CONNECTED WITH THE OUTSTANDING RESEARCH CARRIED ON BY DRS. BLANKENHORN, SPIES, AND COOPER, ALTHOUGH IN JUSTICE TO YOUR EDITORIAL STAFF, I DID INTERNE IN THE CINCINNATI GENERAL HOSPITAL (1928-29) WHERE THE WORK WAS DONE, WHICH DOUBTLESS ACCOUNTS FOR THE ERROR...
...have been traced in Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically celebrated little fruit fly. It is by changes in these genes that evolution of different types of organisms takes place. But last week Dr. Millislav Demerec of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Genetics announced his opinion- based on careful research-that chromosomes contain one gene, which, by affecting all the genes, speeds up the rate of evolutionary change. It may be due to this single "pacemaker" gene that the evolution of higher organisms has required only hundreds of millions of years instead of billions, as it might have if organic...
...nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye" (Wordsworth) is the perpetual slogan on the front cover of Nature, which Writer H. G. Wells has called "one of the best newspapers in the world." A weekly published in London, Nature is an international clearing house for major scientific research, the most famed scientific journal in existence. Scientists all over the world grab copies of Nature from the postman much as cowboys grab for their favorite pulps...
...doctors, research problem No. 1 is cancer. No. 1 sleuth organization is the recently established National Advisory Cancer Council, a branch of the U. S. Public Health Service. Several months ago Surgeon General Thomas Parran appointed a committee of five eminent researchers* to correlate all the facts discovered about the cause and growth of cancer in the last 30 years. Last week the U. S. Public Health Service released the scientists' report. Significant facts...
...Stanhope Bayne-Jones and Ross Granville Harrison of Yale, John Howard Northrop and James Bumgardner Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Clarence Cook Little, head of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor...