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...training who decided early in her career to do medical research. In the 1950s, while working on the complex chemistry of diabetes at the Veterans Administration Hospital in The Bronx, N.Y., Yalow and her late collaborator, Dr. Solomon Berson, devised a sensitive new biological analytic technique called the radioimmunoassay (RIA). Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in the so-called immune reactions by which the body's antibodies combine with foreign antigens, the test was sensitive enough to detect exceedingly minute quantities of a substance...
There was an immediate-and surprising-payoff. Yalow and Berson found that most adult diabetics did not have a shortage of the hormone insulin in their blood. Rather, it was present in abundance; only its sugar-metabolizing action was somehow blocked. Subsequently, Yalow and others developed similar RIAS for detecting human growth hormone, hepatitis virus and other biological substances. Today the RIA technique is used by labs around the world...
Schubert, Symphony No. 9 in C; Debussy, Ibéria and La Mer; Berlioz, Queen Mab Scherzo; Respighi, Feste Romane; Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique): The Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting (5 LPs, RCA). When Toscanini made these recordings in 1941-42 with the orchestra Leopold Stokowski had built, it was astonishing, then as now, to note how readily the musicians yielded their lush sound and fat phrasing to the brilliant, transparent, sharply contoured style that Toscanini favored. The resulting interpretations are still splendid to hear-spacious...
...Cited for basic research was Rosalyn S. Yalow of the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital, both the first woman and first nuclear physicist to win a Lasker prize. Together with the late Dr. Solomon A. Berson, she developed a sophisticated new tool called radioimmunoassay (RIA) for measuring minuscule quantities of pharmacological and biological substances. Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in antigen-antibody reactions, the technique is becoming increasingly important in everything from diagnosing disease to finding poisons in murder victims...
...make his momentous decision himself. He would have to act quickly. Most observers in South Viet Nam were convinced that Saigon was running out of time. Already, North Vietnamese forces had responded to the capital's indecision by launching what could turn into a major offensive against Ba Ria, which controls Saigon's escape route to the sea. For the first time in two years, they also lobbed several rockets on Saigon itself...