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Cancer researchers have looked long for a specific poison secreted by cancer cells. If such a substance could be detected in a cancer patient's blood, early diagnosis should be easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
Exploring the Unknown (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). Sir Cedric Hardwicke in a half-hour drama, The Truth Serum...
...John Quintin Griffith Jr., and colleagues at Penn's Medical School clinic, discovered several years ago that the blood serum of some patients with high blood pressure contained a pituitary hormone which slows up the secretion of urine. A synthetic preparation of the hormone, called pitressin, was found to have a peculiar property: injected into a patient, it reduces urine secretion at first, but after a few days increases...
Exploring the Unknown (Sun. 9 p.m., Mutual). "Can Man Live to be 150 Years Old?" Dramatization of the ACS serum of Russia's Dr. Alexander A. Bogomolets, who died last week...
Died. Dr. Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomolets, 65, director of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Pathology at Kiev, discoverer of the anti-reticular cytotoxic serum ("ACS"), Which he thought might make people live to 150 by stimulating the connective tissues of the human system, but which, as a heart-disease sufferer, he could not use himself (TIME, June 17); in Kiev...