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Working with an annual budget of $1 million, the Center's permanent staff of seven will study rhesus monkeys, sebus monkeys, and shrews. All members of this staff will be from the Medical School and the College...
Though hard-hit by graduation losses, plagued by student apathy, and riding on the trough of a 33-game losing streak, Crimson coach Rhesus J. Portfolio '00 is "cautiously optimistic" about his team's chances for success this season...
...team led by Dr. Robert J. White takes a brain, which is about as big as a man's fist, out of a rhesus monkey's skull, retains only small bits of bone to serve as supports, and suspends the brain in an apparatus of tubes and rods. Its blood vessels are hitched to a small heart-lung machine, and fresh blood is supplied from a monkey blood bank. Delicate needles stuck in its surface al low an electroencephalograph to measure the electrical activity by which all brains do their work...
...species. Just as predicted by evolutionary theory, mouse DNA combined nicely with that of other rodents, such as rats and hamsters. But it showed much less attraction for the DNA of monkeys and cattle. Human DNA demonstrated only moderate interest in mouse, but it combined with some from a rhesus monkey almost as strongly as if the stuff came from a human. Both mouse and human showed weak interest in DNA from salmon, and almost none in that from bacteria...
...from man to man is still highly experimental and seldom successful for long, Charity Hospital surgeons had more desperately ill patients needing transplants than there were human donors available. Early this fall they had made an heroic attempt to deal with the shortage by transplanting two kidneys from a rhesus monkey to a 32-year-old woman (TIME, Oct. 25). But after a few days, the patient died. All the doctors could offer Davis was the same sort of slim chance...