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Despite over $40 worth of telegrams and telephone calls. Dane and Walcott so far have been unable to locate any live Japanese silkworm eggs in this country. This problem they expect to solve this morning when the reply to a cablegram to Brazil is due to arrive...
...Defense Mobilizer Charles Wilson said that the Government might promote a big synthetic-wool industry by granting tax advantages for expansion to Du Pont (Dacron), Union Carbide & Carbon (Dynel) and other makers of wool substitutes. Such a program could eventually make the Merino sheep as obsolete as the Japanese silkworm...
...annual $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science went this year to Zoology Professor Carrol Milton Williams of Harvard. His research* on the hormone system that makes the native silkworm (Cecropia) turn into a moth had nothing to do with silk production; it was aimed at the central secrets of growth and life...
...Silkworms are a long way from human problems, but Dr. Williams' work was largely supported by cancer research funds, because a cure for cancer may depend upon a better understanding of growth. Cancer cells grow lawlessly, defying the hormone controls that limit the growth of ordinary cells. By working out in detail the hormone system that governs the silkworm's metamorphosis. Dr. Williams has helped explain both lawful and lawless growth within the human body...
Glands in the silkworm secrete the hormone which controls the production of an enzyme called cytohrome. This cytochrome is directly responsible for the growth and metamorphosis of the silkworm. Without it, the insect cannot change from caterpillar to pupa to moth. Such an enzyme in a human may be the cause of the malignant growths called cancers...