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Louis M. Kunkel, professor of pediatrics and genetics at the Medical School, reports in Saturday's issue of Nature Genetics the discovery of a new form of dystrophin, present only in the peripheral nerve and Schwann cells. These cells protect the nerves and ensure impulse conduction...
Researchers elsewhere are zeroing in on ways to bridge gaps in nerve tissue. They have succeeded in doing this in rats with grafts of Schwann cells, specialized cells that manufacture nerve growth factors. They serve as a bridge for the remaining nerve cells to cross over and re-establish contact. Other researchers are using fetal tissue for this purpose. Paul Reier of the University of Florida in Gainesville has achieved dramatic results by injecting a soup of fetal nerve cells into the damaged spines of cats. Felines that couldn't walk at all before surgery regained a limited ability...
...example of the Mozart boom; not since Mahler became a cult figure in the 1960s has a composer been as popular. On Broadway, Peter Shaffer's hit play Amadeus recently won five Tony Awards. Mozart last year led all composers in the number of new listings in the Schwann record catalogue, and record companies are assiduously exploring the nooks and crannies of the composer's output in search of further repertory-the oratorio La Betulia Liberata, for example, or the opera Mitridate, Re di Ponto, both written when Mozart was an adolescent. In addition, music of the classical...
...Argo (ARG ZRG687-8) issue is simply a conservative product, joining the other seven traditional recordings of the Suites listed in Schwann's. It says practically nothing new. There is passing obeisance to research, evident in the over-dotted rhythms of the overtures and in some imaginatively-ornamented solo passages. The flute and harpsichord playing, by William Bennett and Thurston Dart respectively, is first-rate. But this is just another rendition with tempos quicker than usual. If you are wearing out your old Herman Scherchen or Karl Ristenpart' discs, then this would be a good replacement...
...freshly pressed reissues of classical standards cut before 1960. In a fiercely competitive market where the consumer is conditioned to demanding the newest rather than the best Beethoven Fifth, say, the life expectancy of many a first-rate classical LP has been growing shorter every year. Fifteen years ago, Schwann's LP catalogue listed 489 classical titles offered by eleven recording companies. Today there are some 14,000 classical titles available from 118 companies, which are spinning out 300 or more new releases each month. In the avalanche, touched off in part by the boom of stereo, close...