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...wooden barracks around a former Army hospital. The agency, then known as Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), was created in 1942 to find ways to protect U.S. soldiers against malaria. The organization has since taken part in the successful campaign against polio (by pioneering the use of the Salk vaccine), and lessened the threat of rabies (by showing it could be carried by bats). The CDC also conducted nationwide childhood immunization programs for measles, mumps and rubella. Says Director Foege: "Today 5,000 children are running around who would be in their graves if it weren't for these...
...workshops, I kept thinking, 'They're talking about me.' " San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson was late to an interview when the car in front of him skidded out of control, and his body braced for the expected crash. Happily it did not occur, and the Salk Institute biochemists he was meeting were soon telling him exactly how his neurotransmitters and other internal defenses had geared up for the anticipated trauma...
...late 1981 scientists at the Salk Institute synthesized the remarkable chemical that triggers the body's stress reactions. As illustrated above, the substance, called corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), is produced in the hypothalamus, a tiny but powerful structure sometimes called "the brain's brain." Having duplicated CRF, the Salk scientists now hope to produce a modified version of the chemical that would actually block the body's reaction to stress...
...experiment was the culmination of years of genetic tinkering by three biochemists: Richard Palmiter, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and Ronald Evans and Neal Birnberg, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif. The gene they prepared for insertion into mice was a carefully crafted composite. It consisted of a rat growth-hormone gene plus part of a mouse gene. The mouse portion served as a switch to activate the rat gene...
...eluded scientists for so long because the body normally produces it in minute quantities. The Salk team, headed by 1977 Nobel Laureate Roger Guillemin, got its sample from a patient with a rare cancer that causes overproduction of GRF. Once isolated, the substance, which is structurally simple, was easily synthesized. Scientists now start the process of determining how to use GRF to solve certain growth problems in humans, like pituitary dwarfism. GRF may also be used to treat some kinds of diabetes and to speed the healing of wounds and burns...