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...Green, expert in bacteriology and immunology, and Dr. John J. Bittner, geneticist and cancer biologist-nailed up an important signpost in medicine's fight against cancer. They reported that they had discovered: 1) a filterable virus which definitely causes breast cancer in mice; 2) an anti-cancer serum which kills the mouse cancer cells, in test tubes...
Rabbits and mice were then infected with a solution of the powder. Mice contracted cancer; rabbits did not. Antibodies, or immune agents, formed in the rabbits' bloodstreams, overpowered the virus, produced the serum used to neutralize the cancer virus in test tubes...
Conclusions reached by the Green-Bittner experiments: viruses are now shown to be more closely linked with the cancer problem; virus-infected cancer cells are entirely foreign to normal mouse cells; anti-cancer agents in the serum cause no damage to normal cells...
...almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti, left his typewriter and Pomeranian to the Martians, signed his body over to science for the possible development of "a serum . . . against the seven capital sins...
...City plant was built in the earlier days of the war, when laboratory mice for the processing of tropical-disease serum were desperately scarce in the U.S. Government joined forces with industrv-which in this case turned out to be professional mouse breeders Frederic G. Carnochan and C. N. Wentworth Cumming. They already had a plant at New City. With Government aid, production zoomed from some 5,000 to 15,000 mice a week (price: 25? a mouse). Old. blue-blooded European strains, in danger of war extermination, were crated, bedded down on peanut shells, and flown to New City...