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...radioactive antibodies as "guided missiles" against cancerous tissue was reported by Doctors David Pressman and Leonhard Korngold, both of Memorial Center. They injected a suspension of mouse cancer into rabbits, whereupon the rabbits reacted by producing antibodies with a special affinity for the invading cancer cells. Serum containing these antibodies was taken from the rabbits and combined with radioactive iodine, then injected into the cancerous mice. When the cancers were later removed from these mice, the doctors found that the radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue...
...young doctor in Vienna, Schick worked with Clemens von Pirquet on serum sickness and similar sensitivities. The two coined the word "allergy." Von Pirquet hit upon the tuberculin test, which shows whether the subject has (or has ever had) tuberculosis, and Schick thought the same idea might be applied to other diseases. What he got was slightly different but more valuable: a remarkably accurate and fairly simple test which shows whether a subject is vulnerable to diphtheria...
When Bela Schick was still a boy in Hungary, German researchers tracked down the microbe which causes diphtheria, and isolated the poisonous secretion which makes a strange, strangling membrane grow across many a victim's throat. They got as far as developing a horse serum which could be used either as a preventive against the disease or as a remedy after it had struck. But so many people got sick from the serum itself that doctors hated to give it as a preventive unless they could be sure that it was really necessary. They needed a test to show...
...Staff members of the University of Illinois must have nothing more to do with the mysterious horse-serum drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951), ruled President George D. Stoddard, because "the Krebiozen affair has been damaging to our scientific reputation." Staffer chiefly affected: Vice President Andrew Ivy, who insisted on giving the secret cancer serum a full trial...
...Caucasus, where a group of 40 carefully selected Georgians of Stalin's age and general physical make-up are forced to lead a life precisely patterned on his, eating the same meals, keeping the same hours, while a corps of doctors observe and test them with life-prolonging serums. Weltwoche does not explain how the worries of ttie most feared and powerful man on earth are simulated, or whether Stalin gets the serum too. Stalin, according to French Ambassador Louis Joxe, who saw him last August, looks like a robust, healthy...